Toxic mix [[electronic resource] ] : a handbook of science and politics / / Herbert N. Foerstel

• Autore: Foerstel Herbert N
• Pubblicazione: Santa Barbara, Calif., : Greenwood Press, c2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (265 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.973/06
• Soggetto topico: Science and state - United States; State, The
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Toxic 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 ev
• Titolo autorizzato: Toxic mix
• ISBN: 1-282-48621-7; 9786612486210; 0-313-36235-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910456199603321
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