Items related to Controversies in Science and Technology Volume 1: From...

Controversies in Science and Technology Volume 1: From Maize to Menopause: v. 1 (Science and Technology in Society) - Hardcover

 
9780299203900: Controversies in Science and Technology Volume 1: From Maize to Menopause: v. 1 (Science and Technology in Society)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0299203905 ISBN 13: 9780299203900
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005

This specific ISBN edition is currently not available.

Synopsis

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.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author

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.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

(No Available Copies)

Search Books:



Create a Want

If you know the book but cannot find it on AbeBooks, we can automatically search for it on your behalf as new inventory is added. If it is added to AbeBooks by one of our member booksellers, we will notify you!

Create a Want

Other Popular Editions of the Same Title

9780299203948: Controversies in Science and Technology: From Maize to Menopause v. 1 (Science & Technology in Society) (Science and Technology in Society)

Featured Edition

ISBN 10:  0299203948 ISBN 13:  9780299203948
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005
Softcover