Index to Science for the People

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Index to Science for the People

by The Editorial Collective

‘Science for the People’ Vol. 5, No. 5, September 1973, p. 32 – 33

The following listing is a compilation of the first three year’s issues of Science for the People. The articles have been categorized under the following headings:

Critique of Establishment Science and Scientists

Use and Misuse of Science and Technology

Imperialism, Technology of Control, Health, Ecology and Environment, To Justify Ideology

Scientists and Technical Workers

Analysis of Work and Working Conditions, Workers’ Actions and Struggles

SESPA/SftP Actions and Activities

Actions at Scientific Meetings, Workplace Actions, Science for Vietnam, Other Actions and Activities, SESPA/SftP Politics

Alternative Science and Technology

Science Teaching

Racism, Sexism, and Liberation

Economic Analysis

Many articles are listed under more than one heading. Within headings articles appear in chronological order. Each entry gives  the title, volume and number of magazine; date; and page.

In the future, each volume will be indexed separately. Please suggest ways we might improve the listing.

CRITIQUE OF ESTABLISHMENT SCIENCE AND SCIENTISTS

Heroes in our Time II, 2; 8/70; 14

A History of the AAA$ II, 4; 12/70; 15

Address to the Academic des Sciences II, 4; 12/70; 32

Strangelove Award, (Teller) III, 1; 2/71; 10

People’s Science III, 1; 2/71; 14

Indictment of Sea borg for Crime of Science against the People III, 1; 2/71; 2

The Social Impact of Modern Biology III, 2; 5/71; 5

Why I Resigned from the National Academy of Sciences III, 4; 9/71; 6

The Strange Procedures of Science magazine’s editor IV, 2; 3/72; 16

Science, Scientists, and the Third World IV, 3; 5/72; 3

Harvard Loses Pete Barrer IV, 3; 5/72; 16

Hasten, Jason, Guard the Nation IV, 5; 9/72; 36

European Confrontation Spoils Jason’s Summer Vacation IV, 6; 11/72; 9

Calculus for Conquest V, 2; 3/73; 34

Light in the Sewer V, 2; 3/73; 40

USE AND MISUSE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

1. Imperialism

The Military Industrial Complex; Myth, Mainstay, or Menace (symposium report) II, 2; 8/70; 6

Nerve Gas Next Door II, 2; 8/70; 9

Herbicide or Genocide—Which Cide are They on? III,1; 2/71; 13

Peoples Peace Treaty (announcement) III, 1; 2/71; 23

Actions at Polaroid III, 1; 2/71; 24

Help for Science Education in Cuba and Vietnam III, 2; 5/71; 28

Raytheon: the Tip of a Stolen Iceberg III, 3; 7/71; 14

Ethnic Weapons III, 5; 11/71; 4

Press Release from Polaroid Revolutionary Worker’s Movement IV, 1; 1/72; 35

Science, Scientists, and the Third World IV, 3; 5/72; 3

Weather Warfare IV, 4; 7/72; 9

Winning Hearts and Minds: War Poems by Vietnam Veterans IV, 6; 11/72; 14

Toys Against the People (remote warfare) V, 1; 1/73; 8

Runaway Electronics V, 1; 1/73; 18

Rx for the People: Preventive Genocide in Latin America V, 2; 3/73; 4

Pogrom for Progress: Brazil V, 2; 3/73; 9

War Without End (review) V, 2; 3/73; 31

Calculus for Conquest V, 2; 3/73; 34

Technological Dependence V, 4; 7/73; 4

Environmental Colonialism V, 4; 7/73; 14

Science and the Man in the Americas V, 4; 7/73; 17

2. Technology of Control

Letters from a Political Prisoner II, 2; 8/70; 5

Population Control and Organized Capital—the Case of Japan II, 4; 12/70; 22

Birth Control in Amerika II, 4; 12/70; 28

The Social Impact of Modern Biology III, 2; 3/71; 5

Fighting the Police Computer System III, 4; 9/71; 13

Psychology in the Legitimation of Apartheid IV, 3; 5/72; 7

Rx for the People: Preventive Genocide in Latin America V, 2; 3/73; 4

Pogrom for Progress: Brazil V, 2; 3/73; 9

Motivation or Manipulation: Management Practice and Ideology V, 4; 7/73; 32

3. Health

Birth Control in Amerika II, 4; 12/70; 28

Cancer: We Cause it and Cure it (announcement) III, 3; 7/71; 12

A Scientific Visit to Hanoi III, 3; 7/71; 19

Biological Science in China III, 4; 9/71; 3

Food Additives or 1+1+1 … Makes Many III, 4; 9/71; 20

Free Clinics IV,  1; 1/72; 22

People’s Health Movement (announcement) IV, 1; 1/72; 23

Industrial Health and the Chemical Worker IV, 3; 5/72; 10

Using Pregnancy Tests in Hiring Discrimination or Ma Bell Rejects Pregnant Belles IV, 3; 5/72; 17

Our Bodies, Our Selves (review) IV, 3; 5/72; 18

What Do Health Maintenance Organizations Maintain? IV, 4; 7/72; 19

Cancer—a Political and Social Problem IV, 4; 7/72; 27

Occupational Health: Time for Us to Get to Work IV. 6; 11/72; 4

Stilbestrol V, 1; 1/73; 14

Midwifery V, 1; 1/73; 16

The Atomic Establishment (review) V, 1; 1/73; 32

Rx for the People: Preventive Genocide in Latin America V, 2; 3/73; 4

The Philadelphia Story (Another Experiment on Women V, 2; 3/73; 28

Health Workers vs. Supervisors V, 3; 5/73; 21

4. Ecology and Environment

Science for the People at Ann Arbor: ENACT Conference II, 2; 8/70; 3

Industrial Health and the Chemical Worker IV, 3; 5/72; 10

The Atomic Establishment (review) V, 1; 1/73; 32

Ecology for the People V, 1; 1/73; 34

Environmental Colonialism V, 4; 7/73; 14

5. To Justify Ideology

Science in the Justification of Class Structure IV, 1; 1/72; 6

Herrnstein Buffs Rebuff Herrnstein’s Ideological Bluff IV, 2; 3/72; 12

Psychology in the Legitimation of Apartheid IV, 3; 5/72; 7

Motivation or Manipulation: Management Practice and Ideology V, 4; 7/73; 32

Women’s Biology in a Man’s World: Some Issues and Questions V, 4; 7/73; 39

SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL WORKERS

1. Analysis of Work and Working Conditions

Equality for Women in Science II, 2; 8/70; 10

Proposed Legislation Threatens to Silence Scientists II, 3; 10/70; 4

Scienza per il Popolo II, 4; 12/70; 35

Unemployment of Scientists and Engineers II, 4; 12/70; 5

Peoples’ Science III, 1; 2/71; 14

Majority View III, 1; 2/71; 21

Manipulation of Man for a War Economy III, 3; 7/71; 5

Engineers in the Working Class III, 4; 9/71; 9

Woods Hole: Seeing the Forest and the Trees III, 5; 11/71; 8

Visit to Pfizer and Co. (letter and reply) III, 5; 11/71; 151

Conditions at Bell Labs (letter) III, 5; 11/71; 182

On Engineers in the Working Class (letter) IV, 1; 1/72; 363

Brother Hollis Writes from Kansas IV, 2; 3/72; 24

Industrial Health and the Chemical Worker IV, 3; 5/72; 10

Women in Chemistry: Part of the 51% Minority IV, 4; 7/72; 4

Colleen Meier 1946-1972 IV, 6; 11/72; 19

Workplace Politics (Honeywell Capers) V, 1; 1/73; 11

Engineering Unemployment—How to Lie With Statistics V, 2; 3/73; 42

Technical Intelligence and the Capitalist Division of Labor (with critiques) V, 3; 5/73; 6

An Examination of Some Myths and Contradictions Concerning Engineers V, 3; 5/73; 16

2. Workers’ Actions and Struggles

200 Scientists and Engineers Descend on Washington II, 2; 8/70; 8

Workers at Cambridge Firm Publish Underground Newspaper II, 2; 8/70; 8

Workers’ Groups Hold Joint Meeting With Science for the People II, 2; 8/70; 16

Computer Professionals for Peace II, 2; 8/70; 17

Actions at Polaroid III, 1; 2/71; 24

Black Revolutionary Scientific Worker Jailed Without Bail III, 1; 2/71; 26

St. Louis Aerospace Workers Respond to Layoffs With New Organization III, 2; 5/71; 9

Polaroid Fires Workers; Struggle Continues III, 2; 5/71; 16

Repression Hits the Liberal Fan III, 2; 5/71; 17

Discrimination at U. Mass; Woman Scientist Fights Back III, 2; 5/71; 18

Class Struggle in the French Science Establishment III, 3; 7/71; 29

Questions from Argentina: Que Pasa en los Estados Unidos? IV, 6; 11/72; 16

Health Workers vs Supervisors V, 3; 5/73; 21

“Marxist” Scabs at the University V, 3; 5/73; 22

Which Side Are We On? (song) V, 3; 5/73; 24

SESPA/SftP ACTIONS AND ACTIVITIES

1. Actions at Scientific Meetings

Science for the People at Ann Arbor: ENACT Conference II, 2; 8/70; 3

Resolutions for the AAAS II, 4; 12/70; 26

SESPA Tells it Like it Is: Opening Statement AAAS ’70 III, 1; 2/71; 6

1970 Chicago AAAS Actions: Review and Critique III, 1; 2/71; 8

Polaroid Struggle Lands at N.Y. APS Meeting III, 2; 5/71; 12

Actions at NSTA III, 3; 7/71; 9

Open Letter, AAAS Philadelphia ’71 IV, 1; 1/72; 4

AAAS Actions at Philadelphia: the Solidarity of the Long-Distance Activists IV, 2; 3/72; 4

American Chemical Society Meeting IV, 4; 7/72; 10

Report of the 16th Annual Biophysical Society and Meeting IV, 4; 7/72; 25

SESPA at the Eastern Psychological Association Meeting IV, 4; 7/72; 35

Up Against the NSTA IV, 5; 9/72; 11

Hasten, Jason, Guard the Nation IV, 5; 9/72; 36

European Confrontation Spoils Jason’s Summer Vacation IV, 6; 11/72; 9

Report from the ACS Collective IV,6; 11/72; 35

Call to AAAS Actions V, 1; 1/73; 29

AAAS: Action and Reaction (with critiques) V, 2; 3/73; 15 & 20

Science and the Man in the Americas V, 4; 7/73; 17

2. Workplace Actions

Bobby Seale at Cold Spring Harbor II, 2; 8/70; 3

Workers at Cambridge Firm Publish Underground Newspaper II, 2; 8/70; 8

Theatre of the Absurd? III, 5; 11/71; 6

Discrimination at U. Mass.; Woman Scientist Fights Back III, 2; 5/71; 18

Controlling Agressive Behavior or Stopping War Research V, 1; 1/73; 21

Calculus for Conquest V, 2; 3/73; 34

SESPA Activist Wins Court Case V, 3; 5/73; 45

3. Science for Vietnam

People’s Science Projects for Vietnam III, 2; 5/71; 25

Science for Vietnam Conference III, 3; 7/71; 24

Science for Vietnam III, 5; 11/71; 10

4. Other Actions and Activities

Industrial Health and the Chemical Worker, (course for workers) IV, 3; 5/72; 10

Report from the China Collective IV, 3; 5/72; 21

Brief History of Vietnam Moratorium Committee at NIH/NIMH IV, 5; 9/72; 43

SESPA-CPP at the Democratic Convention IV, 6; 11/72; 36

Science Teachers Hold Successful Conference in Boston V, 3; 5/73; 40

5. SESPA/Science for the People Politics

Tyranny of Structurelessness IV, 6; 11/72; 26

SESPA/SftP Politics V, 1; 1/73; 4

A Modest Proposal V, 1; 1/73; 27

How Does Political Change Take Place? V, 3; 5/73; 31

Does Our Practice Stand Up To Scrutiny? V, 3; 5/73; 33

Who Are We? V, 3; 5/73; 34

ALTERNATIVE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Technical Assistance Project II, 2; 8/70; 7

Panthers Suggest a “Free Science Program” II, 4; 12/70; 26

Peoples’ Science III, 1; 2/71; 14

People’s Science Projects for Vietnam III, 2; 5/71; 25

Help for Science Education in Cuba and Vietnam III, 2; 5/71; 28

A Scientific Visit to Hanoi III, 3; 7/71; 19

Science for Vietnam Conference III, 3; 7/71; 24

Biological Science in China III, 4; 9/71; 3

Science for Vietnam III, 5; 11/71; 10

Free Clinics IV, 1; 1/72; 22

People’s Health Movement (announcement) IV, 1; 1/72; 23

Mathematics in China and Vietnam IV, 2; 3/72; 19

Industrial Health and the Chemical Worker IV, 3; 5/72; 10

Science Teaching: towards an Alternative IV,5; 9/72; 6

Occupational Health: Time for us to Get to Work IV, 6; 11/72; 4

Rat Control—People’s Science in Philadelphia IV, 6; 11/72; 20

A Modest Proposal (alternative science) IV, 1; 1/73; 27

Fidel Castro on the Universal University V, 4; 7/73; 244

Agriculture in China: an Eyewitness Report V, 4; 7/73; 26

SCIENCE TEACHING

Help for Science Education in Cuba and Vietnam III, 2; 5/71; 28

Actions at NSTA III, 3; 7/71; 9

Science Teaching: a Critique III, 3; 7/71; 11

Perception, Learning, and Science Education IV, 4; 7/72; 15

Science Teaching: towards an Alternative IV, 5; 9/72; 6

Objecting to Objectivity: a Course in Biology IV, 5; 9/72; 16

Resource Bibliography IV, 5; 9/72; 22

Action and Reaction: Teaching Physics in Context (course bibliographies) IV, 5; 9/72; 29

Grading: to Each According to her/his Needs? IV, 5; 9/72; 22

Rat Control—People’s Science in Philadelphia IV, 6; 11/72; 20

Paolo Freire—Pedagogy IV, 6; 11/72; 26

Science Teachers Hold Successful Conference in Boston V, 3; 5/73; 40

Fidel Castro on the Universal University V,4; 7/73; 245

RACISM, SEXISM, and LIBERATION

1. Racism

Actions at Polaroid III, 1; 2/71; 24

Black Revolutionary Scientific Worker Jailed without Bail III, 1; 2/71; 26

Polaroid Fires Workers; Struggle Continues III, 2; 5/71; 16

Ethnic Weapons III, 5; 11/71; 4

Liberation in the Liberation III, 5; 11/71; 22

Hernstein Buffs Rebuff Hernstein’s Ideological Bluff IV, 2; 3/72; 12

Psychology in the Legitimation of Apartheid IV, 3; 5/72; 7

Rx for the People: Preventive Genocide in Latin America V, 2; 3/73; 4

2. Sexism

Equality for Women in Science II, 2; 8/70; 10

Women in Chemistry: Part of the 51% Minority IV, 4; 7/72; 4

Discrimination at U. Mass.; Woman Scientist Fights Back III, 2; 5/71; 18

Liberation in the Liberation III, 5; 11/71; 22

Tyranny of Structurelessness IV, 6; 11/72; 26

The Philadelphia Story (Another Experiment on Women V, 2; 3/73; 28

Boston Women to Publish Special Issue of Science for the People V, 3; 5/73; 39

Womens’ Biology in a Man’s World: some Issues and Questions V, 4; 7/73; 39

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS

Unemployment of Scientists and Engineers II, 4; 12/70; 5

Unemployment in America—the People Pay for Inflation II, 4; 12/70; 10

Population Control and Organized Capital—the Case of Japan II, 4; 12/70; 22

Manipulation of Men for a War Economy III, 3; 7/71; 5

Raytheon: the Tip of a Stolen Iceberg III, 3; 7/71; 14

Inflation, Recession, and Crisis IV, 1; 1/72; 14

The U.S. Ethical Drug Industry IV, 4; 7/72; 12

Technological Dependence V, 4; 7/73; 4

 

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