Science has its own historical, philosophical, and psychological imperatives.
In Available Light, the anthropologist Clifford Geertz explores how
science, nationhood and identity are constructed in a postmodern, multicultural
world. An illuminating and disconcerting book. Published by Princeton,
£15.95, ISBN 0691049742.
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