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science
Articles about technology, science and the scientific method.
Science - further reading guide
Libcom's guide to further reading on the sciences and the scientific method.
a. Biology
*Richard Lewontin/Richard Levins/Stephen Rose/Leon Kamin:
Dialectical Biologist - Lewontin/Levins
Biology Under the Influence - Lewontin/Levins
Not in Our Genes - Lewontin/Rose/Kamin
Towards A Liberatory Biology - Rose, Ed.
The Making of Memory - Rose
The Science and Politics of I.Q. - Kamin
The Conscious Brain - Rose
Psychology - further reading guide
Libcom's guide to further reading on psychology and psychoanalysis.
Sigmund Freud:
The Complete Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
The Ego and Id
Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis
The Future of an Illusion
Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
On Dreams
An Outline of Psychoanalysis
Totem and Taboo
Civilization and Its Discontents
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
Beyond The Pleasure Principle
The Interpretation of Dreams
Wilhelm Reich:
The medicalisation of everyday life
NHS doctor and science writer Ben Goldacre writes about bullshit medical research, bogus science reporting, the placebo effect, and everything else from postmodernism to evolutionary psychology.
[b]His critiques of the health system, pharmaceutical industry, and consumer health fads are extremely relevant - his focus on social factors, economic inequalities, and rejection of reductionist medicalising and/or individualising of what are essentially social/collective issues is pretty consistent with any critique class-struggle anarchists could produce.
Scientists challenge copyright regulations
Last month a group of US physicists challenged copyright regulations that placed restriction on sharing their work.
A group of physicists last month challenged the American Physical Society after the APS withdrew two articles, the authors of which indicated an intention to publish some of the work on online-encyclopaedia Wikipedia
