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This book offers an account of how values play an important role within scientific practices, and how this account illuminates many ethical issues that arise concerning scientific practices and applications.

The idea that science is value free has been challenged over the years by a number of different sides, including: postmodernists, feminists, radical ecologists, Third World advocates and religious fundamentalists. In this book, Hugh Lacey appraises and explicates the view that science is value free. Lacey discusses how science and values interact, with a focus on a discussion of development, and science's place in development particularly in Third World countries. The book approaches this ongoing discussion in the following ways: by exploring the nature and meaning of values; discussing...

This book offers an account of how values play an important role within scientific practices, and how this account illuminates many ethical issues that arise concerning scientific practices and applications.

Exploring the role of values in scientific inquiry, Hugh Lacey examines the nature and meaning of values, and looks at challenges to the view, posed by postmodernists, feminists, radical ecologists, Third-World advocates and religious fundamentalists, that science is value free. He also focuses on discussions of 'development', especially in Third World countries. This paperback edition includes a new preface.