| Controversies in Science and Technology: From Maize to Menopause Volume 1 Contributor(s): Kleinman, Daniel Lee (Editor), Kinchy, Abby J. (Editor), Handelsman, Jo (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0299203948 ISBN-13: 9780299203948 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press OUR PRICE: $23.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2005 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Technology & Engineering | Social Aspects - Science | Philosophy & Social Aspects |
| Dewey: 303.483 |
| LCCN: 2004012829 |
| Series: Science and Technology in Society |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 6.18" W x 8.96" (1.07 lbs) 356 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Mice in the Freezer, Owls on the Porch is in many ways a love story - about a quiet scientist and his flamboyant wife, but also about their passions for hunting, for wild lands, and for the grouse and raptor species that they were instrumental in saving from destruction. From the papers and letters of Frederick and Frances Hamerstrom, the reminiscences of contemporaries, and her own long friendship with this extraordinary couple who were her neighbors, Helen Corneli draws an intimate picture of Fran and Hammy from childhood through the genesis and maturation of a romantic, creative, and scientific relationship. Following the Hamerstroms as they give up a life of sophisticated convention and comfort for the more civilized (as Aldo Leopold would have it) pleasures of living and conducting on-the-spot research into diminishing species, Corneli captures the spirit of the Hamerstroms, their profession, and the natural and human environments in which they worked. |