Table of Contents: Knowledge in ferment :

Other Authors:	Groen, Adriaan in 't,
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	[Leiden] : Leiden University Press, ©2007.
Series:	LUP Academic
Subjects:	Science > Social aspects. Science. SCIENCE > Philosophy & Social Aspects. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Social Aspects.
Online Access:	http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=191780

Table of Contents:

Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. Novel drug discobery
serendipity or design?; 2. The hunt for therapeutic leads; 3. From genomic to therapies: deductive or inductive?; 4. Hempel's dilemma and the physics of computation; 5. Noise or signal? The dilemma of individual differences; 6. The strugle for the guiding principle in health care ethics and health law; 7. Law v. Psychiatry The case of Bert Boxwell; 8. 'Hard cases' in the law; 9. The compatibility of sharia with the rule of law. Fundamental conflict: between civilisations? Within civilisations? Or between scholars?
10. Should we 'teach the controversy'? Intelligent Design, science and religion11. Cracks in the cradle? On the quest for the origens of humankind; 12. Classical challenges: Black Athena, Thucydides in Iraq, Plato in the courtroom; 13. The autonomy of syntax; 14. The dilemma of national history; 15. Region or discipline? The debate about Area Studies; 16. Consilience: reductionism and holism; List of Authors and Editors; Gen.