Science Studies: An Advanced Introduction

About the Author

About the Author David J. Hess is an anthropologist and tenured professor in the Science and Technology Studies Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is the author of various books in anthropology and science studies, including Spirits and Scientists: Ideology, Spiritism, and Brazilian Culture ; Samba in the Night: Spiritism in Brazil; Science in the New Age: The Paranormal, Its Defenders and Debunkers, and American Culture; Science and Technology in a Multicultural lMJrld: The Cultural Politics ifFacts and Artifacts; and the volume coedited with Linda Layne, The Anthropology ifScience and Technology (Knowledge and Society Tkl. 9). He is the recipient of various grants and awards, including two Fulbrights and a National Science Foundation grant in the public understanding of science, and he is the chair of the Committee ofthe Anthropology ofScience, Technology, and Computing of the American Anthropological Association. His current research is on science, the public, and alternative cancer therapies. The first book in that series, which is a companion volume to Science Studies, is Can Bacteria Cause Cancer? Alternative Medicine Confronts Big Science (New York University Press, 1997). 197 ...