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基本説明
Examines the most hot-button issues involving science and technology and provides a balanced assessment of the arguments on all sides of the often strident debates.
Full Description
The modern world is filled with debate and controversy, and science and technology—the most characteristic features of the modern world—are not immune. Science and technology are implicated in many if not all of the issues, troubles, and problems students are likely to come across in their classes and in their everyday lives. Science and technology serve as a primary pathway to understanding front page headlines on everything from war to AIDS, and from oil exploration to global warming. Battleground: Science and Technology examines the most hot-button issues involving science and technology and provides a balanced assessment of the arguments on all sides of the often strident debates.
The approximately 100 issues examined in Battleground: Science and Technology include topics in the brain sciences, including the controversies over the cause of autism and the reliability of memory, as well as the debates over parapsychology; debates surrounding information technology, such as only privacy, the impact of video games on social behavior, and the advent of virtual reality; the complexity over drugs and medications, such as the testing of the efficacy of medications, the war on recreational drugs, and the costs of pharmaceutical research; and hot-button topics that are constantly in the news, such as evolution and creationism, DNA testing, stem-cell research, and genetically modified organisms.
Each entry provides a list of accessible resources useful for further research.
Contents
Guide to Related Topics Acknowledgments Introduction Entries Agriculture Alien Abductions Art and Science Artificial Intelligence Asymmetric Warfare Autism Biodiesel Biotechnology Brain Sciences Cancer Censorship Chaos Theory Chemical and Biological Warfare Cloning Coal Cold Fusion Computers Creationism and Evolutionism Culture and Science Death and Dying Drugs Drugs and Direct-to-Consumer Advertising Drug Testing Ecology Education and Science Epidemics and Pandemics Ethics of Clinical Trials Eugenics Fossil Fuels Gaia Hypothesis Gene Patenting Genetically Modified Organisms Genetic Engineering Geothermal Energy Globalization Global Warming Green Building Design Healing Touch Health and Medicine Health Care HIV/AIDS Human Genome Project Immunology Indigenous Knowledge Influenza Information Technology Intellectual Property Internet Mad Cow Disease Mathematics and Science Math Wars Medical Ethics Medical Marijuana Memory Mind Missile Defense Nanotechnology Nature vs. Nurture Nuclear Power Nuclear Warfare Obesity Objectivity Off-Label Drug Use Organic Food Parapsychology Pesticides Pluto Precautionary Principle Privacy Prostheses and Implants Psychiatry Quarks Religion and Science Reproductive Technology Research Ethics Robots Science Wars Scientific Method Search Engines Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Sex and Gender Sexuality Social Robotics Social Sciences Software Space Space Tourism Space Travel Stem Cell Research Sustainability Technology Technology and Progress Tobacco UFOs Unified Field Theory Urban Warfare Vaccines Video Games Virtual Reality Warfare Waste Management Water Wind Energy Yeti Bibliography About the Editors and Contributors Index
