Controversies In Science And Technology: From Maize To Menopause: From Maize to Menopause Volume 1 (SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN SOCIETY, Band 1) - Softcover

 
9780299203948: Controversies In Science And Technology: From Maize To Menopause: From Maize to Menopause Volume 1 (SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN SOCIETY, Band 1)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0299203948 ISBN 13: 9780299203948
Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

Written for general readers, teachers, journalists, and policymakers, this volume explores four controversial topics in science and technology, with commentaries from experts in such fields as sociology, religion, law, ethics, and politics:

* Antibiotics and Resistance: the science, the policy debates, and perspectives from a microbiologist, a veterinarian, and an M.D.

* Genetically Modified Maize and Gene Flow: the science of genetic modification, protecting genetic diversity, agricultural biotech vesus the environment, corporate patents versus farmers' rights

* Hormone Replacement Theory and Menopause: overview of the Women's Health Initiative, history of hormone replacement therapy, the medicalization of menopause, hormone replacement therapy and clinical trials

* Smallpox: historical and medical overview of smallpox, government policies for public health, the Emergency Health Powers Act, public resistance vs. cooperation.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Daniel Lee Kleinman is associate professor of rural sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and author of Impure Cultures: University Biology and the World of Commerce. Abby J. Kinchy is research assistant in rural sociology at UW–Madison. Jo Handelsman is the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology and codirector of the Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute at UW–Madison.

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Verlag
University of Wisconsin Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0299203948
ISBN 13 
9780299203948
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
341
Herausgeber
Kleinman Daniel Lee, Kinchy Abby J., Handelsman Jo
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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Verantwortliche Person
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk

Doelen 72
Breda
4831 GR
Niederlande

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Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005
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