Controversies in Science and Technology: From Maize to Menopause

by Daniel Lee Kleinman (Editor), Abby J. Kinchy (Editor), Jo Handelsman (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780299203931
Publisher:	University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date:	05/06/2005
Series:	Science and Technology in Society , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	356
File size:	2 MB

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.

Table of Contents

<table of contents, p. v> Contents Acknowledgements 000 Introduction: From Maize to Menopause 000 Abby J. Kinchy, Daniel Lee Kleinman and Jo Handelsman Part I: Antibiotics on the Farm & in our Food: The Matter of Antibiotic Resistance & Livestock Antibiotic Resistance: The Agricultural Connection 000 Christine Mlot Agricultural Antibiotics: Features of a Controversy 000 Brian Martin Agricultural Uses of Antibiotics: Evaluating Possible Safety Concerns 000 Abigail Salyers Antibiotics in Animal Agriculture: An Ecosystem Dilemma 000 Randy Singer The Impact of Antibiotic Use in Agriculture on Human Health and the Appropriate Public Policy Response 000 Tamar Barlam Part II: Genetically Modified Crops and Gene Flow Genetic Modification and Gene Flow: An Overview 000 Allison A. Snow Introduction of Transgenic Crops in Centers of Origin and Domestication 000 Paul Gepts Agricultural Biotechnology Science Compromised: The Case of Quist and Chapela 000 Kenneth Worthy , Richard C. Strohman, Paul R. Billings, and The Berkeley Biotechnology Working Group Hard Red Spring Wheat at a Genetic Crossroad: Rural Prosperity or Corporate Hegemony? 000 Dennis Olson Agricultural Biotechnology and the Environmental Challenge Peter Raven Part III: Women, Hormone Replacement Therapy, and Menopause Postmenopausal Hormones: An Overview 000 Sylvia Smoller The History of HRT: A Timeline 000 Barbara Seaman The Medicalization of Menopause in America, 1897-2000: Mapping the Terrain 000 Judith Houck Symptom Reporting at the End of Menstruation: Biological Variation and Cultural Difference 000 Margaret Lock Evidence-Based Medicine and Clinical Practice 000 David L. DeMets Part IV: Smallpox, Bioterrorism, and Public Health Smallpox: The Disease, The Virus, and the Vaccine 000 Dixie D. Whitt The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act: A Tool for Public Health Preparedness 000 Lesley Stone, Lawrence O. Gostin, and James G. Hodge States in the War Against Bioterrorism: Reactions to the Federal Smallpox Campaign and the Emergency Health Powers Model Act 000 David Rosner and Gerald Makowitz Public Resistance or Cooperation? A Tale of Smallpox in Two Cities 000 Judith Walzer Leavitt Contributors 000 Index 000