02715nam 2200577Ia 450 991045619960332120200520144314.01-282-48621-797866124862100-313-36235-1(CKB)2520000000006659(EBL)495024(OCoLC)578648214(SSID)ssj0000429917(PQKBManifestationID)11301590(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000429917(PQKBWorkID)10431184(PQKB)10916239(MiAaPQ)EBC495024(Au-PeEL)EBL495024(CaPaEBR)ebr10365031(CaONFJC)MIL248621(EXLCZ)99252000000000665920091009d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrToxic mix[electronic resource] a handbook of science and politics /Herbert N. FoerstelSanta Barbara, Calif. Greenwood Pressc20101 online resource (265 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-313-36234-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Preliminaries; Contents; Introduction; 1 Atomic Politics; 2 The Politics of Space Science; 3 The Politics of Sexual Reproduction; 4 The Politics of Stem Cells; 5 The Heated Politics of Global Warming; 6 The Politics of Nature; 7 The Politics of Public Health; 8 The Politics of Evolution; 9 Science and the Politics of Xenophobia; 10 The Promise of Political Change and Scientific Redemption; Appendix A Survey of Private Organizations Involved in Science and Politics; IndexToxic Mix?: A Handbook of Science and Politics takes a topic very much in the center of public debate in the last decade and places it in a revealing historical context. It follows the often contentious relationship of science and politics from the FDR era to the current Obama administration, highlighting the many highly charged moments when the two were in conflict.||Toxic Mix? ranges across the major areas of scientific inquiry with public policy implications, including atomic energy, space science, public health, stem cells, sexual reproduction, environmental science, global warming, and evScience and stateUnited StatesState, TheElectronic books.Science and stateState, The.338.973/06Foerstel Herbert N892982MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456199603321Toxic mix1994586UNINA