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For the most current, comprehensive resource in this rapidly evolving field, look no further than the Revised Edition of the Handbook of Science and Technology Studies. This masterful volume is the first resource in more than 15 years to define, summarize, and synthesize this complex multidisciplinary, international field. Tightly edited with contributions by an internationally recognized team of leading scholars, this volume addresses the crucial contemporary issues—both traditional and nonconventional—social studies, political studies, and humanistic studies in this changing field. Containing theoretical essays, extensive literature reviews, and detailed case studies, this remarkable volume clearly sets the standard for the field. It does nothing less than establish itself as the benchmark, one that will carry the field well into the next century.
Science Controversies: The Dynamics of Public Disputes in the United States
Science Controversies: The Dynamics of Public Disputes in the United States
IN 1976 animal rights activists picketed the American Museum of Natural History in New York City to block experiments that seemed to impose unnecessary cruelty and pain. A decade later protesters were trashing laboratories, stealing animals, and demanding on moral principles the end of all animal research. The controversy over animal research is but one of the many disputes over scientific developments and technological applications that have proliferated over the past 20 years. And like the animal rights protests, they have escalated their tactics and increased their demands. Antiabortionists succeeded in banning federal funds for research using the human fetus from 1981 to ...
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