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

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