Product Description: "The DNA Mystique is a wake-up call to all who would dismiss America's love affair with 'the gene' as a merely eccentric obsession."--In These Times"Nelkin and Lindee are to be warmly congratulated for opening up this intriguing field [of genetics in popular culture] to further study...read more

Provides a provocative and disturbing study of the growing trade in human DNA, tissue, blood, bones, embryos, and other commodities and assesses the implications of such access to biological material and genetic information in terms of scientific research, law enforcement, business, and more. 20,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: In 1999, by the board of education in Kansas voted to delete all mention of evolution from the states recommended science curriculum and also from its educational assessment tests. This decision, and similar decisions in other states, suggest the persistence of creationists and their ability to capture sufficient support to influence educational policies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Analyzes the complex relations between scientists and journalists, revealing not only the constraints, biases, and myth-making of journalists, but also the public-relations strategies of scientists, universities, corporations, and the government...read more

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Product Description: Praise for previous editions: "No one has produced a more formidable body of work on technology, politics, and decision making than Dorothy Nelkin; and I, like many others, have come to look forward to each new installment. Controversy, a set of case studies edited by Nelkin...read more

Gives a history and analysis of the animal rights movement, and describes its highly publicized protests of and attacks on laboratories, cosmetic companies, women in furs, rodeos, circuses, and zoos

The impact of AIDS cannot be adequately measured by epidemiology alone. As the editors of this volume argue, AIDS must be understood as a "disease of society," which is challenging and changing society profoundly. Numerous books on AIDS have looked at the ways in which our social institutions, norms and values have determined how the disease has been dealt with, but this book examines the ways in which AIDS is, in turn, changing our social institutions, norms and values. Eleven chapters explore the impact of AIDS on the arts and popular entertainment, the effects of the disease on our concept of family, on government and legal institutions and on the health services, and the ways in which AIDS is forcing society to come to terms with longstanding tensions between community values and individual rights. The authors are drawn from a broad range of disciplines, bringing to the book the insights of sociology, law, public health, philosophy, political science, psychology, journalism and medicine. This book provides the first assessment of the impact of AIDS on American life from such a diverse set of perspectives, and it will be of interest to anyone concerned with the effect of the disease on our society. Earlier versions of some of these articles have appeared in The Milbank Quarterly and have since been substantially revised. (view table of contents)

Explains why accurate science reporting is important, describes public relations ploys, and looks at biases, constraints and myth making in science journalism

Examines the attitudes of American workers to the health risks of their jobs dealing with potentially hazardous chemicals

Product Description: Risk in the workplace -- occupational health -- is an increasingly visible and complex issue. Evaluating and managing workplace risks involves not only labour and management but also scientists, physicians, journalists, administrators, and policy analysts...read more

Examines the efforts of creationists to require the teaching of the biblical account of creation in American schools and analyzes the reactions of the scientific community to the controversy

Product Description: One way to analyze the political values and beliefs that underlie decisions about science and technology is through the study of controversies, since it is during the course of disputes that vital concerns and hidden assumptions are clearly revealed...read more

Examines the history of French and German organizations that oppose the development of nuclear power and depicts the responses of governments to these movements

Product Description: Using data from European experiments permitting the public to help determine the usage of technological innovation, Dorothy Nelkin provides information on a process involving difficult social choices. She examines the question of whether the public should be entitled to a say in determining the impact of technological processes on their daily lives...read more

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Focuses on the heroin addict in society and the merits and problems of methadone maintenance programs on a national as well as community level