CS251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Global Positioning System, Human Genome Project, Phrenology
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Early scientists became interested in creating taxonomies of living being that. From leonardo"s drawings, to anatomical theatres, from ultrasounds to anatomical. Pseudoscienti c racist practices included phrenology (belief that character traits could. Science is a cultural practice; scienti c knowledge is inseparable from social and political meanings and values exhibits, scienti c knowledge is frequently represented visually. The human genome project, which aims to map the entire human genome, raises new. Eugenics, the belief in improving the quality of the human race of selective breeding, is. While a modernist critique of scienti c racism would argue that it is not true" science, a. Direct-to-consumer advertising tends to interpellate consumers as being in need of. Culture imperialism: refers to how an ideology, a politics of a way of life is exported into. Rise of satellites o o o o o o other territories through the export of cultural product o capitalist west.