The drug quinine figured as an object of enforced consumption in British India between the late 1890s and the 1910s, when the corresponding diagnostic category malaria itself was redefined as a mosquito-borne fever disease. This article details an overlapping milieu in which quinine, mosquitoes and malaria emerged as intrinsic components of shared and symbiotic histories. It combines insights f...

The conflicts between science and morals which still continue to arise despite the apparent hegemony of atheistic scientism over traditional Judeo-Christianity in the twentieth century reflect a basic contradiction in the metaphysical foundation of Western lives. As was set forth by Machiavelli, the contradiction inherent in Western ethics is that it is based on the simultaneous belief in both ...

In the latter stage of modem philosophy in the nineteenth century, leading thinkers stated their intention to overcome an objectionable antinomy by somehow combining theory and practice. Hegel remained a notable exception to this trend when he insisted that the philosophic science of right, and the state, was theoretical. Once those who argued, in opposition, that the task of philosophers was t...

The political ideology of neoliberalism is widely recognized as having influenced the organization of national and global economies and public policies since the 1970s. In this article, we examine the relationship between the neoliberal variant of globalization and science. To do so, we develop a framework for sociology of science that emphasizes closer ties among political sociology, the socio...

Analysis of the social-cognitive substrate of scientific activity reveals that much of science functions in an inauthentic mode whereby a materialist world view constrains the authentic practice of science. But materialism cannot explain matter, as evidenced by empirical data concerning the nature of physical manifestation. Nor, then, should materialism be the basis for our interpretation of co...

This article uses data from students in England to pilot and validate an ‘Attitudes Science Religion’ instrument which explores secondary school students’ perceptions of the relationship between science religion, as well their attitudes towards religion. was developed part previous studies is intended for educators researchers both pedagogical research purposes. The post-pilot questionnaire the...

The International Law Association (ILA) and the Institut de Droit (IDI) were both founded in 1873 at a critical juncture history of pacifism internationalism, immediate aftermath 1870–1871 Franco-Prussian War 1872 British-American Alabama arbitration. Frustrated by blatant violations international rules during war then emboldened arbitral resolution protracted dispute between Britain United Sta...

In recent decades, bed bugs have swept across wealthy industrialized nations. After near extirpation in North America and Northern Europe, the return of these insects has led to a significant level public anxiety cultural notoriety. Here, we undertake an analysis human-bed bug relations order both better understand this contemporary resurgence critically examine concept “companion species.” We ...

Abstract This text practices a philosophical voice that deviates from visuo-centric theory and the muteness of its language instead sings complex simultaneity things thoughts burn through walls discipline illuminate activities at margins. refrain “I,” which brings us back to bring forward, surprising in renewal again again. It is body is, as Samuel Beckett’s Not I , once not I; an idiosyncratic...