num_pages: 356
description: Written for general readers, teachers, journalists, and policymakers, this volume explores four controversial topics in science and technology, with commentaries from experts in such fields as sociology, religion, law, ethics, and * Antibiotics and the science, the policy debates, and perspectives from a microbiologist, a veterinarian, and an M.D.* Genetically Modified Maize and Gene the science of genetic modification, protecting genetic diversity, agricultural biotech vesus the environment, corporate patents versus farmers' rights* Hormone Replacement Theory and overview of the Women's Health Initiative, history of hormone replacement therapy, the medicalization of menopause, hormone replacement therapy and clinical trials* historical and medical overview of smallpox, government policies for public health, the Emergency Health Powers Act, public resistance vs. cooperation.
language: English
title: Controversies in Science and Technology: From Maize to Menopause (Volume 1)
titlecomplete: Controversies in Science and Technology: From Maize to Menopause (Volume 1) (Science and Technology in Society)
ratings_count: 1
publisher: University of Wisconsin Press