1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910978273203321

Autore

Hartmuth Maximilian

Titolo

Kaiser's Mosques

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, 2024

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910957174803321

Autore

Proctor Robert <1954->

Titolo

Golden holocaust : origins of the cigarette catastrophe and the case for abolition / / Robert N. Proctor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011

ISBN

9786613587343

9781280492112

1280492112

9780520950436

0520950437

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (775 p.)

Classificazione

QR 528

Disciplina

362.29/60973

Soggetti

Tobacco industry - United States - History

Tobacco use - Health aspects

Smoking - Psychological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Prologue -- Introduction: Who Knew What and When? -- Part One. The Triumph of the Cigarette -- Part Two. Discovering the Cancer Hazard -- Part Three. Conspiracy on a Grand Scale -- Part Four. Radiant Filth and Redemption -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Lexicon of Tobacco Industry Jargon --



Timeline of Global Tobacco Mergers and Acquisitions (selected) -- Timeline of Tobacco Industry Diversification into Candy, Food, Alcohol, and other Products (selected) -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The cigarette is the deadliest artifact in the history of human civilization. It is also one of the most beguiling, thanks to more than a century of manipulation at the hands of tobacco industry chemists. In Golden Holocaust, Robert N. Proctor draws on reams of formerly-secret industry documents to explore how the cigarette came to be the most widely-used drug on the planet, with six trillion sticks sold per year. He paints a harrowing picture of tobacco manufacturers conspiring to block the recognition of tobacco-cancer hazards, even as they ensnare legions of scientists and politicians in a web of denial. Proctor tells heretofore untold stories of fraud and subterfuge, and he makes the strongest case to date for a simple yet ambitious remedy: a ban on the manufacture and sale of cigarettes.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910300629403321

Titolo

Knowledge Communities in Europe : Exchange, Integration and Its Limits / / edited by Bertold Schweitzer, Thomas Sukopp

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Wiesbaden : , : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : , : Imprint : Springer VS, , 2018

ISBN

3-658-18852-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VI, 164 p.)

Disciplina

501

Soggetti

Philosophy and science

Knowledge, Theory of

Research—Moral and ethical aspects

Philosophy of Science

Epistemology

Research Ethics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.



Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Social epistemology as the philosophical framework for investigating knowledge-communities in Europe -- Dissemination of knowledge in European scientific networks in 18th century: the case of oxygen -- The scientific Paths to Europeanization: A critical sociological perspective upon the European Space Program -- Expert communities and security: Neofunctional integration in European policing practices -- The role of visible and invisible hands: Scientific communities and political integration -- The European Union’s Research and Innovation Policy as intentional community building.-Experts in EU Policy-Making: towards evidence-based problem-solving in research and innovation policy? -- Educating the people. Spanish intellectuals and reform strategies in the 19th century -- Networking in Science and Popular Science: An Anglo-German Knowledge Space in the 19th Century.

Sommario/riassunto

How do transnational communities of scientists emerge and evolve, and how does scientific cooperation interact with social and political integration in Europe? This collection assembles a wide array of analyses from philosophy and sociology of science and the social sciences tackling these questions from various perspectives. The contributions from philosophy investigate the foundations of social epistemology, and the features and development of significant transnational research communities in the natural sciences, while those from sociology and political science examine the various forms of interaction between transborder scientific and other expert activities and broader social and political integration. They are united by advancing our understanding of the complex network of transnational intellectual discourses, identities, interests, and integration in Europe. Contents Discoveries of oxygen and the «Chemical Revolution» in the context of European scientific networks. – From interaction to integration? Transnational scientific communities in biology. – Science and the manufacture of a political order: A sociological study of the European manned space programme. – European research programmes: Spaces of knowledge or economic tool? – Expert communities and security: Neofunctional integration in European policing practices. – An epistemic-consequentialist social epistemology as an epistemological perspective concerning the investigation of a common, European knowledge community   Target Groups Lecturers and students of natural and social sciences and philosophy Practitioners in science promotion and science management The Editors Dr. Bertold Schweitzer is Lecturer in Politics and Philosophy at the University of Dundee. Dr. Thomas Sukopp is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy/Didactics of Philosophy at the University of Siegen.