video references
LIFE STORY: a BBC Horizon special on the
discovery of the structure of DNA will be screened during the semester.
It dramatises in a most effective way a number of issues relevant to this
course: the nature of scientific method (particularly the tension
between induction & deduction, experiment & hypothesis), gender
& science, nationality & science, co-operative v competitive approaches
to science, problems of narratisation / dramatisation of science.
THE BLACKBIRD AND THE BELL: excerpts from
a January 1997 RTE talk show will be shown as illustration of new age assault
on science.
THE FRAGILE HEART: TV drama constructing
a range of positions on science & medicine in our times, privileging
a new age critique of science.
SCIENCE & RELIGION: a video collage
of programmes (eg, RTE Would you believe ?, C4 Equinox, BBC Newsnight)
dealing with a range of positions on the relationship of science &
religion.
