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Controversies in Science and Technology : From Maize to Menopause.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Science and Technology in Society SeriesPublisher: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 2005Copyright date: ©2005Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (357 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780299203931
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Controversies in Science and TechnologyDDC classification:
  • 303.48/3
LOC classification:
  • QH442
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: From Maize to Menopause -- Part 1: Overuse of Antibiotics on the Farm -- 1 Antibiotic Resistance: The Agricultural Connection -- 2 Agricultural Antibiotics: Features of a Controversy -- 3 Agricultural Uses of Antibiotics: Evaluating Possible Safety Concerns -- 4 Antibiotics in Animal Agriculture: An Ecosystem Dilemma -- 5 The Impact of Antibiotic Use in Agriculture on Human Health and the Appropriate Public Policy Response -- Part 2: Genetically Modified Crops: Global Issues -- 6 Genetic Modification and Gene Flow: An Overview -- 7 Introduction of Transgenic Crops in Centers of Origin and Domestication -- 8 Agricultural Biotechnology Science Compromised:The Case of Quist and Chapela -- 9 Hard Red Spring Wheat at a Genetic Crossroad: Rural Prosperity or Corporate Hegemony? -- 10 Agricultural Biotechnology and the Environmental Challenge -- Part 3: Hormone Replacement Therapy and Menopause: Science, Culture, and History -- 11 Postmenopausal Hormones: An Overview -- 12 The Medicalization of Menopause in America, 1897-2000: Mapping the Terrain -- 13 The History of Hormone Replacement Therapy: A Timeline -- 14 Symptom Reporting at the End of Menstruation: Biological Variation and Cultural Difference -- 15 Evidence-based Medicine and Clinical Practice -- Part 4 Smallpox and Bioterrorism -- 16 Smallpox: The Disease, the Virus, and the Vaccine -- 17 The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act: A Tool for Public Health Preparedness -- 18 The States and the War against Bioterrorism: Reactions to the Federal Smallpox Campaign and the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act -- 19 Public Resistance or Cooperation? A Tale of Smallpox in Two Cities -- Contributors -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: From Maize to Menopause -- Part 1: Overuse of Antibiotics on the Farm -- 1 Antibiotic Resistance: The Agricultural Connection -- 2 Agricultural Antibiotics: Features of a Controversy -- 3 Agricultural Uses of Antibiotics: Evaluating Possible Safety Concerns -- 4 Antibiotics in Animal Agriculture: An Ecosystem Dilemma -- 5 The Impact of Antibiotic Use in Agriculture on Human Health and the Appropriate Public Policy Response -- Part 2: Genetically Modified Crops: Global Issues -- 6 Genetic Modification and Gene Flow: An Overview -- 7 Introduction of Transgenic Crops in Centers of Origin and Domestication -- 8 Agricultural Biotechnology Science Compromised:The Case of Quist and Chapela -- 9 Hard Red Spring Wheat at a Genetic Crossroad: Rural Prosperity or Corporate Hegemony? -- 10 Agricultural Biotechnology and the Environmental Challenge -- Part 3: Hormone Replacement Therapy and Menopause: Science, Culture, and History -- 11 Postmenopausal Hormones: An Overview -- 12 The Medicalization of Menopause in America, 1897-2000: Mapping the Terrain -- 13 The History of Hormone Replacement Therapy: A Timeline -- 14 Symptom Reporting at the End of Menstruation: Biological Variation and Cultural Difference -- 15 Evidence-based Medicine and Clinical Practice -- Part 4 Smallpox and Bioterrorism -- 16 Smallpox: The Disease, the Virus, and the Vaccine -- 17 The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act: A Tool for Public Health Preparedness -- 18 The States and the War against Bioterrorism: Reactions to the Federal Smallpox Campaign and the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act -- 19 Public Resistance or Cooperation? A Tale of Smallpox in Two Cities -- Contributors -- Index.

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