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Battleground: Science and Technology [Two Volumes]
Sal Restivo, Peter H. Denton
Book Code: GR4164
ISBN: 0-313-34164-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-34164-9
616 pages, n/a
Greenwood Press
Publication: 10/30/2008
List Price: $175.00 (UK Sterling Price: £100.00)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 7 x 10
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Description: The modern world is filled with debate and controversy, and science and technology - the most characteristic features of the modern world - are not immune. Science and technology are implicated in many if not all of the issues, troubles, and problems students are likely to come across in their classes and in their everyday lives. Science and technology serve as a primary pathway to understanding front page headlines on everything from war to AIDS, and from oil exploration to global warming. Battleground: Science and Technology examines the most hot-button issues involving science and technology and provides a balanced assessment of the arguments on all sides of the often strident debates. The approximately 100 issues examined in Battleground: Science and Technology include;
  • Topics in the brain sciences, including the controversies over the cause of autism and the reliability of memory, as well as the debates over parapsychology
  • Debates surrounding information technology, such as only privacy, the impact of video games on social behavior, and the advent of virtual reality.
  • The complexity over drugs and medications, such as the testing of the efficacy of medications, the war on recreational drugs, and the costs of pharmaceutical research.
  • Hot-button topics that are constantly in the news, such as evolution and creationism, DNA testing, stem-cell research, and genetically modified organisms.
    Each entry provides a list of accessible resources useful for further research.
    • Table of Contents:
    • Guide to Related Topics
    • Acknowledgments
    • Introduction
    • Entries
    • Agriculture
    • Alien Abductions
    • Art and Science
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Asymmetric Warfare
    • Autism
    • Biodiesel
    • Biotechnology
    • Brain Sciences
    • Cancer
    • Censorship
    • Chaos Theory
    • Chemical and Biological Warfare
    • Cloning
    • Coal
    • Cold Fusion
    • Computers
    • Creationism and Evolutionism
    • Culture and Science
    • Death and Dying
    • Drugs
    • Drugs and Direct-to-Consumer Advertising
    • Drug Testing
    • Ecology
    • Education and Science
    • Epidemics and Pandemics
    • Ethics of Clinical Trials
    • Eugenics
    • Fossil Fuels
    • Gaia Hypothesis
    • Gene Patenting
    • Genetically Modified Organisms
    • Genetic Engineering
    • Geothermal Energy
    • Globalization
    • Global Warming
    • Green Building Design
    • Healing Touch
    • Health and Medicine
    • Health Care
    • HIV/AIDS
    • Human Genome Project
    • Immunology
    • Indigenous Knowledge
    • Influenza
    • Information Technology
    • Intellectual Property
    • Internet
    • Mad Cow Disease
    • Mathematics and Science
    • Math Wars
    • Medical Ethics
    • Medical Marijuana
    • Memory
    • Mind
    • Missile Defense
    • Nanotechnology
    • Nature vs. Nurture
    • Nuclear Power
    • Nuclear Warfare
    • Obesity
    • Objectivity
    • Off-Label Drug Use
    • Organic Food
    • Parapsychology
    • Pesticides
    • Pluto
    • Precautionary Principle
    • Privacy
    • Prostheses and Implants
    • Psychiatry
    • Quarks
    • Religion and Science
    • Reproductive Technology
    • Research Ethics
    • Robots
    • Science Wars
    • Scientific Method
    • Search Engines
    • Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
    • Sex and Gender
    • Sexuality
    • Social Robotics
    • Social Sciences
    • Software
    • Space
    • Space Tourism
    • Space Travel
    • Stem Cell Research
    • Sustainability
    • Technology
    • Technology and Progress
    • Tobacco
    • UFOs
    • Unified Field Theory
    • Urban Warfare
    • Vaccines
    • Video Games
    • Virtual Reality
    • Warfare
    • Waste Management
    • Water
    • Wind Energy
    • Yeti
    • Bibliography
    • About the Editors and Contributors
    • Index
    LC Card Number: 2008026714
    LCC Class: Q175
    Dewey Class: 303
    PDF Catalogs:
    Greenwood School and Public Library Reference Spring 2008.pdf
    Greenwood Science and Health 2008.pdf
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