ABOUT THIS BOOKWritten 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 politics:
* Antibiotics and Resistance: the science, the policy debates, and perspectives from a microbiologist, a veterinarian, and an M.D.
* Genetically Modified Maize and Gene Flow: the science of genetic modification, protecting genetic diversity, agricultural biotech vesus the environment, corporate patents versus farmers' rights
* Hormone Replacement Theory and Menopause: overview of the Women's Health Initiative, history of hormone replacement therapy, the medicalization of menopause, hormone replacement therapy and clinical trials
* Smallpox: historical and medical overview of smallpox, government policies for public health, the Emergency Health Powers Act, public resistance vs. cooperation.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHYDaniel Lee Kleinman is associate professor of rural sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and author of Impure Cultures: University Biology and the World of Commerce. Abby J. Kinchy is research assistant in rural sociology at UW–Madison. Jo Handelsman is the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology and codirector of the Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute at UW–Madison.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Contents
Acknowledgements 000
Introduction: From Maize to Menopause 000
Abby J. Kinchy, Daniel Lee Kleinman and Jo Handelsman
Part I: Antibiotics on the Farm & in our Food: The Matter of Antibiotic Resistance & Livestock
Antibiotic Resistance: The Agricultural Connection 000
Christine Mlot
Agricultural Antibiotics: Features of a Controversy 000
Brian Martin
Agricultural Uses of Antibiotics: Evaluating Possible Safety Concerns 000
Abigail Salyers
Antibiotics in Animal Agriculture: An Ecosystem Dilemma 000
Randy Singer
The Impact of Antibiotic Use in Agriculture on Human Health and the Appropriate Public Policy
Response 000
Tamar Barlam
Part II: Genetically Modified Crops and Gene Flow
Genetic Modification and Gene Flow: An Overview 000
Allison A. Snow
Introduction of Transgenic Crops in Centers of Origin and Domestication 000
Paul Gepts
Agricultural Biotechnology Science Compromised: The Case of Quist and Chapela 000
Kenneth Worthy , Richard C. Strohman, Paul R. Billings, and The Berkeley
Biotechnology Working Group
Hard Red Spring Wheat at a Genetic Crossroad: Rural Prosperity or Corporate Hegemony?
000
Dennis Olson
Agricultural Biotechnology and the Environmental Challenge
Peter Raven
Part III: Women, Hormone Replacement Therapy, and Menopause
Postmenopausal Hormones: An Overview 000
Sylvia Smoller
The History of HRT: A Timeline 000
Barbara Seaman
The Medicalization of Menopause in America, 1897-2000: Mapping the Terrain 000
Judith Houck
Symptom Reporting at the End of Menstruation: Biological Variation and Cultural Difference
000
Margaret Lock
Evidence-Based Medicine and Clinical Practice 000
David L. DeMets
Part IV: Smallpox, Bioterrorism, and Public Health
Smallpox: The Disease, The Virus, and the Vaccine 000
Dixie D. Whitt
The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act: A Tool for Public Health Preparedness 000
Lesley Stone, Lawrence O. Gostin, and James G. Hodge
States in the War Against Bioterrorism: Reactions to the Federal Smallpox Campaign and the
Emergency Health Powers Model Act 000
David Rosner and Gerald Makowitz
Public Resistance or Cooperation? A Tale of Smallpox in Two Cities 000
Judith Walzer Leavitt
Contributors 000
Index 000
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