Controversies In Science And Technology: From Maize To Menopause

Kleinman, Daniel Lee

ISBN 10: 0299203948 / ISBN 13: 9780299203948

Verlag: Univ of Wisconsin Press, 2005

Beschreibung

Gd. condition - What does the science say about, Antibiotics on farms, Modified Crops, Hormone Replacement, Smallpox, Bioterrorism, and . (TR18199z).

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 8199z

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Controversies In Science And Technology: From Maize To Menopause
• Verlag: Univ of Wisconsin Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0299203948
• ISBN-13: 9780299203948
• Einband: Soft Cover
• Zustand: Good
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Science
  • Cookbook

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Inhaltsangabe

Written for general readers, teachers, journalists, and policymakers, this volume explores four controversial topics in science and technology, with commentaries from scientists and experts in such fields as sociology, religion, law, ethics, and politics: Antibiotics on the Farm and in Our Food; Genetically Modified Crops and Gene Flow: the science of genetic modification, genetic diversity, agricultural biotech and the environment, corporate patents and farmers' rights; Women, Hormone Replacement Theory, and Menopause: the history of hormone replacement therapy, the medicalization of menopause, clinical practice; Smallpox, Bioterrorism, and Public Health: historical and medical overview of smallpox, the Emergency Health Powers Act, the war on bioterrorism, public resistance vs. cooperation.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Daniel Lee Kleinman is associate professor in the department of rural sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Politics on the Endless Frontier and editor of Science, Technology, and Democracy.