Controversies in Science and Technology

From Maize to Menopause

356 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• ISBN: 9780299203948
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.08.2006
• Größe: 228 x 157 mm
• Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press
• Herausgegeben von: Daniel Lee Kleinman