| Description |
531 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Physical Medium |
regular print |
| Note |
Includes writings previously published in Broadview anthology of expository prose. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Easter's end / Jared Diamond -- From extraterrestrial cause for the cretaceous-tertiary extinction / Luis W. Alvarez, Walter Alvarez, Frank Asaro, and Helen V. Michel -- The sixth extinction? / Elizabeth Kolbert -- The "hockey stick" graph -- Myth vs. fact regarding the "hockey stick" / Michael Mann -- Battle over climate data turned into war between scientists and sceptics / Fred Pearce -- Climate change debate overheated after septic grasped "hockey stick" / Fred Pearce -- What's up? South! Map -- From what we still do not know about South-North technoscientific exchange: north-centrism, scientific diffusion, and the social studies of science / Alexis de Greiff and Mauricio Nieto -- Behavioral study of obedience / Stanley Milgram -- Some thoughts on ethics of research: after reading Milgram's "behavioral study of obedience" / Diana Baumrind -- Issues in the study of obedience: a reply to Baumrind / Stanley Milgram -- From "torture at Yale": experimental subjects, laboratory torment and the "rehabilitation" of Milgram's "obedience to authority" / Ian Nicholson -- Resisting authority: a personal account of the Milgram obedience experiments / Joseph Dimow -- Retracted: ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children / A.J. Wakefield, S.H. Murch, A. Anthony, J. Linnell, D.M. Casson, M. Malik, M. Berelowitz, A.P. Dhillon, M.A. Thomson, P. Harvey, A. Valentine, S.E. Davies, and J.A. Walker-Smith -- How the case against the MMR vaccine was fixed / Brian Deer -- Long-term safety and effectiveness of iron-chelation therapy with deferiprone for thalassemia major / Nancy F. Olivieri, Gary M. Brittenham, Christine E. McLaren, Douglas M. Templeton, Ross G. Cameron, Robert A. McClelland, Alastair D. Burt, and Kenneth A. Fleming -- Academic freedom in clinical research / David G. Nathan and David J. Weatherall -- The Olivieri case / George Constantinou, Stavros Melides, Bernadette Modell, Michael Spino, Fernando Tricta, David G. Nathan, and David J. Weatherall -- From bias in reporting of end points of efficacy and toxicity in randomized, clinical trials for women with breast cancer / F.E. Vera-Badillo, R. Shapiro, A. Ocana, E. Amir, and I.F. Tannock -- Ghostwriters in the sky / Ben Goldacre -- From Bad pharma / Ben Goldacre -- Critique of The bell curve / Stephen Jay Gould -- None of the above: what IQ doesn't tell you about race / Malcolm Gladwell -- Linear genetics, non-linear epigenetics: complementary approaches to understanding complex diseases / Richard C. Strohman -- From epigenetic regulation of the mammalian cell / Keith Baverstock and Mauno Rönkkö -- From non-invasive assessment of stress in commercial housing systems: a report for the Australian egg corporation limited / Jeff Downing -- Beyond doubt: intensive farming practices results in stressed birds / Humane Society International -- The truth about free range eggs is tough to crack / Christine Parker -- From leg disorders in broiler chickens: prevalence, risk factors, and prevention / Toby G. Knowles, Steve C. Kestin, Susan M. Haslam, Steven N. Brown, Laura E. Green, Andrew Butterworth, Stuart J. Pope, Dirk Pfeiffer, and Christine J. Nicol -- From scientific opinion on the science behind the development of a risk assessment of plant protection products on bees / European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) Panel on Plant Protection Products and Their Residues (PPR) -- Common pesticides "can kill frogs within an hour" / Damian Carrington -- Executive summary of Global food: waste not, want not / Tim Fox and Ceng Fimeche -- In vitro meat, new technologies, and the "yuck factor" / Alexandre Erler -- From engineering the world's tallest -- Burj Dubai / William F. Baker, D. Stanton Korista, and Lawrence C. Novak -- Mile-high tower wars: how tall is too tall? / Jimmy Lee Shreeve -- From Facebook use predicts declines in subjective well-being in young adults / Ethan Kross, Philippe Verduyn, Emre Demiralp, Jiyoung Park, David Seungjae Lee, Natalie Lin, Holly Shablack, John Jonides, and Oscar Ybarra -- The egg and the sperm: how science has constructed a romance based on stereotypical male-female roles / Emily Martin -- From science faculty's subtle gender biases favor male students / Corrine A. Moss-Racusin, John F. Dovidio, Victoria L. Brescoll, Mark J. Graham, and Jo Handelsman -- From gender, culture, and sex-typed cognitive abilities / David Reilly -- Complete androgen insensitivity syndrome: long-term medical, surgical, and psychosexual outcome / Amy B. Wisniewski, Claude J. Migeon, Heino F.L. Meyer-Bahlburg, John P. Gearhart, Gary D. Berkovitz, Terry R. Brown, and John Money -- Appendixes: A. How to use sources -- B. Writing about science: a closer look. |
| Summary |
Developed for use in college and university courses, Science and Society provides a broad selection of science writing intended to help students think critically about science and related ethical issues, and to write effectively about science in a variety of styles. The anthology combines pieces aimed at a general audience--including essays by Stephen Jay Gould, Elizabeth Kolbert, and Malcolm Gladwell--with a substantial selection of academic writing, including research articles from journals such as The Lancet, Science, and PLOS ONE. The volume is arranged thematically according to discussion topics ranging from climate change and factory farming to gender discrimination in the sciences and corporate involvement in medical research. Special attention is given to controversial works, including Stanley Milgram's "Behavioral Study of Obedience," and to examples of science gone wrong, such as Andrew Wakefield's infamous paper falsely linking the MMR vaccine to autism. The volume's introduction outlines major issues in contemporary science, such as publication bias and the commercialization of research, as well as introducing writing concepts such as objectivity of tone and active/passive voice. Each article is accompanied by discussion questions and by helpful explanatory footnotes for non-specialist readers. |
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Technical writing.
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Technical writing. |
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Science.
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Science. |
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Science -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Science -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
| Added Author |
Nelson-McDermott, Catherine A. (Catherine Ann), 1962- editor.
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Buzzard, Laura, editor.
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LePan, Don, 1954- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781554811922 (bound) |
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1554811929 (bound) |
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