Science & Technology / Medicine / Agriculture / Social Sciences

 

Controversies in Science and Technology
Volume 1: From Maize to Menopause
Edited by Daniel Lee Kleinman, Abby J. Kinchy,
and Jo Handelsman

Science and Technology in Society
Daniel Lee Kleinman and Jo Handelsman, Series Editors

Hot topics in sci-tech-from scientific, legal, political, religious, and societal perspectives

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 Therapy, 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.

Daniel Lee Kleinman is associate professor of rural sociology at the University of Wisconsin­Madison and author of Impure Cultures: University Biology and the World of Commerce. Abby J. Kinchy is research assistant in rural sociology at UW­Madison. 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 UW­Madison.

For more information contact our publicity manager, phone: (608) 263-0734, email: publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu

cover in blue and green with four small inset photos

January 2005
272 pp.  6 x 9
14 b/w illus
ISBN-13: 978-0-299-20390-0
Cloth $65.00 s
ISBN 0-299-20394-8
Paper $24.95 t


To order, you can accumulate titles in the Shopping Cart by clicking on the bulleted lines below. You can submit your order electronically, paying for it with MasterCard or Visa.
Click here for further explanation of shopping cart feature.




Never ordered from us before?
Read this first.

Home | Books | Journals | Events | Textbooks | Authors | Related | Search | Order | Contact

If you have trouble accessing any page in this web site, contact Kirt Murray, Web manager.
E-mail: kdmurray@wisc.edu or by phone at 608-263-0733.

Updated February 13, 2008

© 2008, The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System