Author: Sylvia Noble Tesh
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813513157
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
In this provocative book, Sylvia Tesh shows how "politics masquerades as science" in the debates over the causes and prevention of disease. Tesh argues that ideas about the causes of disease which dominate policy at any given time or place are rarely determined by scientific criteria alone. In a final chapter, Tesh urges scientists to incorporate egalitarian values into their search for the truth, rather than pretending science can be divorced from that political ideology.