Science in the Service of Human Rights (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights)

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Summary: Science and Human Rights
Review: This remarkably lucid and comprehensive book provides a safe and sane guide for the communities of technoscience practitioners and human rights activists in a troubled world where mega corporate science and technology remain, overall, recalcitrant even to lisp the alphabet of human rights norms, standards, and values. At the same time, it traces insightfully and in rich detail histories of dissenting scientiists and academics, as well as the somewhat conflicted practices of grassroots human rights activists. It rescues the rather oxymoronic fate of 'globalization with a human face' by offering an archive of the best available options. This work, directed to fostering practices of a global culture of human rights will remain indispensable for a long time.