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A lecture was presented by the author at the Democratic Opinion Forum on Health Teaching and Research, organ­ized by Mexico's National Health Institutes Coordinating Office, at National Cardiology Institute "Ignacio Chavez", where he presented a critical review of the conventional classification of basic and applied science, as well as his per­sonal view on health science teaching and research. Ac­cording to the author, "well-conducted science" is that "generating reality-checked knowledge" and "mis-conduct­ed science" is that "unproductive or producing 'just lies' and 'non-fundable'. To support his views, the author re­views utilitarian and pejorative definitions of science, as well as those of committed and pure science, useful and useless science, and practical and esoterical science, as synonyms of applied and basic science. He also asserts that, in Mexico, "this classification has been used in the past to justify feder­al funding cutbacks to basic science, allegedly because it is not targeted at solving 'national problems' or because it was not relevant to priorities set in a given six-year political administration period". Regarding health education and re­search, the author asserts that the current academic pro­grams are inefficient and ineffective; his proposal to tackle these problems is to carry out a solid scientific study, con­ducted by a multidisciplinary team of experts, "to design the scientific researcher curricula from recruitment of intelligent young people to retirement or death". Perfor­mance assessment of researchers would not be restricted to publication of papers, since "the quality of scientific work and contribution to the development of science is not reflected by the number of published papers". The English version of this paper is available at: http://www.insp.mx/salud/index.html ; En el contexto de una intervención en el Foro de Consulta Democrática de la Coordinación de los Institutos Nacio­nales de Salud sobre Enseñanza e Investigación en Salud, realizado en el Instituto Nacional ...

A review essay on a book by Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Ewa Kuleza, & Annette Legutke [Eds], The State of Political Science in Central and Eastern Europe (Berlin: Sigma, 2002).

This article tries to articulate certain drifts in 'social psychology of science' with different contributions from 'feminist studies of science.' This is done in a reflexive aim in order to analyze how gender structures intersect the practices of psychological knowledge production. In this process sexual subjects and objects of psychological knowledge are constructed. It is also stressed, the relevance given in feminist epistemologies to the analysis of subjectivities conformation in the production of science. As well as, to the role of diverse subject-knowledge-positions and its necessary democratic inclusion for a more objective and social fair science-psychology.

Save British Science Society (SBS). (1998). Políticas para el próximo gobierno en el área de ciencia y tecnología : Memorándum de Save British Science Society ( SBS ), marzo de 1996. Redes, 5(12), 77-110. ; Save British Science ( SBS ) es un grupo de acción en favor de la ciencia, entendida en su más amplio sentido, incorporando la ingeniería, la medicina y la tecnología, y con raíces en el ámbito académico. Desde su fundación –en 1986– SBS ha procurado interpretar el lugar que ocupa la ciencia en un contexto más amplio, que va desde los establecimientos de enseñanza hasta el uso de la ciencia que hace la industria para crear riqueza, y el logro de una mejor calidad de vida. SBS ha establecido buenos contactos tanto con la industria como con el sector financiero: industriales de primera línea forman parte del Consejo Consultivo de SBS y otros han participado en simposios organizados por la entidad. ; The Science and Engineering Research Base, the quality of the scientists and engineers working in the UK science and engineering research base is outstanding, and a national asset, but their potential is not being realised. Given adequate Government funding there is a unique opportunity for Britain to become The Laboratory of Europe, continuing our great tradition for discovery and forming a basis on which to build, and attract, high-tech, high value-added industries. As a nation Britain has been an under-achived. We must raise our horizons, become more professional at all levels. The re are only two options for Britain: become smarter or poorer.

Ilus. Tab. Bib. Sum. (En) ; Secondary forests developing on agricultural land after it is abandoned, or as the fallow period in systems of subsistence agriculture, are an increasingly important component of the forest resources of the tropics. They fix and store carbon and may contribute to the alleviation of global warming, they are refuges for biodiversity in agricultural landscapes, and they are low-cost sources of a tremendous variety of forest products. The final years of the 20th century represent an opportune time to bring together researchers concerned with biological, ecological, social/organizational, financial/economic and political aspects of secondary forests and their management, to share their experiences and opinions concerning secondary tropical forests and to contribute to the development of a forward-looking, cross-disciplinary research agenda. The conference had the following objectives: 1) to summarize the state of knowledge of tropical secondary forests from the standpoint of the ecological, social and political sciences. 2) to report the most recent results of research on secondary forests from all relevant disciplines.