Book Review: The Green Salesman: reflections on the book and film, 'An inconvenient truth' by Albert Gore Jr.
The Green Salesman: reflections on the book and film, 'An inconvenient truth', by Albert Gore Jr. Emmaus, PA, Rodale Press, 2006. ISBN: 9781594865671
Learning from Lomborg: or where do anti‐environmentalists come from?
SCIENCE GOES TO MARKET Whether we think of it as a new mode of knowledge production or as a more general condition of ‘epistemic drift’, there has been a rather significant change in the social relations of science over the past 20 years. As a neo-liberal ideology has spread around the world, infusing public policy and the public sphere itself with a kind of overarching commercial mentality, a large part of the scientific enterprise has gone to market. In almost all countries of the world, scientists are now routinely expected to sell themselves and their expertise to the highest bidder, while governments, as well as intergovernmental bodies such as the European Commission, spend much of the time and energy devoted to science policy deliberations to devising ways to bring university researchers into more intimate relations with private companies. For Michael Gibbons and his co-authors (1994), traditional forms of discipline-based knowledge production (what they term ‘mode 1’) have been more or less replaced by new forms that transcend disciplinary boundaries and are directly oriented toward ‘contexts of application’. A new mode of knowledge production—socalled ‘mode 2’—has emerged which challenges the values or norms that had previously governed the scientific enterprise. Already in the 1980s, Aant Elzinga (1985) had come to view the emerging commercialization with alarm, as he noted that established epistemic criteria, that is, the ways in which scientific truth claims are justified, were being put out of operation, as scientists increasingly found themselves in a condition of what he termed ‘epistemic drift’. More recently, the notion of a ‘triple helix’ of government, industry and
The Legacy of Art in Plastic Surgery
Summary The consistent relationship between surgery and art has been very well documented since 2000 BC. The close relationship between plastic surgery and art is historical and is still expected by the public and our patients. This article emphasizes the many links plastic surgery has with art, and presents a few practical examples of its reverberation in aesthetic and reconstructive plastic surgery procedures. Based on his surgical and actual sculpting activities in the realm of contemporary art, the author elaborates on 7 contributions art education affords the plastic surgery praxis, as an incentive and a reflection of its value to the plastic surgeon’s life.