Science in Society 55

Science in Society 55
Author: Dr. Mae-Wan Ho
Publisher: Institute of Science in Soc
Total Pages: 52
Release: 1975
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ISBN:

In this issue: From the Editors - Unintended Hazards of Geoengineering Freeing the World from GMOsSyngenta Charged for Covering up Livestock Deaths from GM CornGM Soy Linked to Illnesses in Farm PigsBehind the GM Wheat TrialBt Toxicity Confirmed: Flawed Studies Exposed Death Camp Fukushima ChernobylNuclear ShutdownChernobyl Deaths Top a Million Based on Real EvidenceTruth about FukushimaFukushima Fallout Rivals ChernobylBystander Effects Amplify Dose and Harm from Ionizing RadiationApple Pectin for RadioprotectionThe Pectin ControversyGreen Tea Compound for RadioprotectionWHO Report on Fukushima a TravestyUK’s Nuclear Illusion Physics of OrganismsLiving H2O the Dancing Rainbow WithinSuperconducting Quantum Coherent Water in Nanospace Confirmed

Science in Society

Science in Society
Author: Matthew David
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2017-03-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0230802044

Science/Technoscience has moved to centre-stage in debates over change, power and justice in twenty-first century societies. This text provides a general framework for understanding, combining and applying the rich range of approaches that exist within sociology about science: in particular, the role (and limitations) of science in generating knowledge, and the relationship between scientific knowledge and social progress. Drawing on case studies from the past up until today's new genetics, this is a clear, even-handed and comprehensive introduction to the field.

Sociology

Sociology
Author: Jay Rumney
Publisher:
Total Pages: 208
Release: 1953
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Science and Society in Restoration England

Science and Society in Restoration England
Author: Michael Hunter
Publisher: CUP Archive
Total Pages: 252
Release: 1981-03-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521228664

This book, first published in 1981, provides a systematic assessment of the social relations of Restoration science. On the basis of a detailed analysis of the early history of the Royal Society, Professor Hunter examines the key issues concerning the role of science in late seventeenth-century England.

New Frontiers in Science and Technology Studies

New Frontiers in Science and Technology Studies
Author: Steve Fuller
Publisher: Polity
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2007-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0745636942

Steve Fuller has a reputation for setting the terms of debate within science and technology studies. In his latest book, New Frontiers in Science and Technology Studies he charts the debates likely to be of relevance in the coming years. Should science and technology be treated as separate entities? What impact has globalization had on science and technology? Can science be clearly distinguished from other forms of knowledge? Does the politicization of science really matter? Is there a role for the social regulation of scientific inquiry? Should we be worried about research fraud? These questions are explored by examining an array of historical, philosophical and contemporary sources. Attention is paid, for example, to the Bruno Latour's The Politics of Nature as a model for science policy, as well as the global controversy surrounding Bjorn Lomborg's The Sceptical Environmentalist, which led to the dismantling and re-establishment of the Danish national research ethics board. New Frontiers in Science and Technology Studies will appeal strongly to scholars and advanced undergraduate and graduate students in courses concerned with the social dimensions of science and technology, and anyone who cares about the future of science.

Can Science Make Sense of Life?

Can Science Make Sense of Life?
Author: Sheila Jasanoff
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2019-03-05
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1509522743

Since the discovery of the structure of DNA and the birth of the genetic age, a powerful vocabulary has emerged to express science’s growing command over the matter of life. Armed with knowledge of the code that governs all living things, biology and biotechnology are poised to edit, even rewrite, the texts of life to correct nature’s mistakes. Yet, how far should the capacity to manipulate what life is at the molecular level authorize science to define what life is for? This book looks at flash points in law, politics, ethics, and culture to argue that science’s promises of perfectibility have gone too far. Science may have editorial control over the material elements of life, but it does not supersede the languages of sense-making that have helped define human values across millennia: the meanings of autonomy, integrity, and privacy; the bonds of kinship, family, and society; and the place of humans in nature.