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Science-as-Culture: New Email forum
Dear STAMAsters,
This just arrived this morning so I thought I would pass it on.
Cheers .... Gavan
>NEW EMAIL FORUM: SCIENCE-AS-CULTURE
>For discussion of cultural aspects of science, technology, medicine and
>other forms of expertise (including the internet)
>
>Science as Culture is an unmoderated forum for critical discussion of the
>cultural aspects of all forms of expertise, for example, the impact of
>science on culture, how culture represents it, the culture of various forms
>of expertise, the theory of knowledge, the impact of science on culture,
>including film, video, music, writing, the internet and other
>communications media, etc.; changing concepts of nature, life and human
>nature, new technologies, gender aspects of science, racism, elitism,
>educational theories, you name it.
>Announcements of conferences, publications, jobs, issues in the relevant
>fields are also welcome.
>Science as Culture is affiiliated with the hard copy journal of the same
>name published by Process Press Ltd.
>(http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/projects/gpp/process.html)
>and (US & Canada) Guilford Publications Inc. (info@guilford.com). A list of
>back issues is at: http://rdz.stjohns.edu/gp/process.html
>A web site associated with the forum will hold articles from back issues,
>as well as submissions under consideration (not obligatory), whose authors
>may benefit from constructive comments for purposes of revisions before the
>hard copy is printed, as well as longer piece not suitable for the email
>format which forum members may wish to discuss.
>The core constituency may be people concerned with cultural, social,
>hoistorical and philosophical studies of science, technology and medicine,
>but all are welcome. Accessibility of expertise to critical scrutiny is a
>large part of the point.
>
>Owner and Editor Robert Maxwell Young robert@rmy1.demon.co.uk
>Managing Editor: Les Levidow L.Levidow@open.ac.uk
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>To subscribe, email to::
>LISTSERV@SJUVM.STJOHNS.EDU
>Body of message:
>SUB SCIENCE-AS-CULTURE yourfirstname yourlastname
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>__________________________________________
>| Robert Maxwell Young: robert@rmy1.demon.co.uk
>| 26 Freegrove Rd., London N7 9RQ England
>| tel. +44 171 607 8306 fax. +44 171 6094837
>| Professor of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Studies,
>| Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies,
>| University of Sheffield: r.m.young@sheffield.ac.uk
>| Home page and writings: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/
>| _Mental Space_: http://rdz.stjohns.edu/gp/rmy.html
>| Process Press, _Free Associations_, _Science as Culture_:
>| http://rdz.stjohns.edu/gp/process.html
> 'One must imagine Sisyphus happy.' - Camus
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