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9780472030040 | Univ of Michigan Pr, October 30, 2004, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: "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.
9780716730491 | W H Freeman & Co, September 1, 1996, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Nelkin and Lindee analyze the striking presence of genetic images in popular culture, where DNA has been touted as an explanation for personality, a source of crime, and the cause of individual success or failure.
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9780879696979 | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Pr, December 1, 2003, cover price $47.00 | About this edition: The gene has become a cultural icon and an increasingly rich source of imagery and ideas for visual artists.
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9780609605400 | 1st edition (Crown Pub, February 1, 2001), cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Provides a look at 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, and business.
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9780595001941 | Iuniverse Inc, April 1, 2000, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: 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.
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9780822364337 | Duke Univ Pr, April 1, 1996, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: In the wake of the highly fractious Culture Wars, conservatives in science have launched a backlash against feminist, multiculturalist, and social critics in science studies.
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9780716727095 | W H Freeman & Co, March 1, 1995, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: New book.
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9780716718260 | W H Freeman & Co, April 1, 1987, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Explains why accurate science reporting is important, describes public relations ploys, and looks at biases, constraints and myth making in science journalism
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9780716725954 | Rev sub edition (W H Freeman & Co, February 1, 1995), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: This text discusses how the media cover science and technology.
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9780226571294 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, March 1, 1994), cover price $22.50 | About this edition: Dangerous Diagnostics is a powerful study of the pervasiveness of diagnostic testing and the potential it offers institutions to classify, categorize, and ultimately control individuals.
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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
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9780803944664 | 3 sub edition (Sage Pubns, March 1, 1992), cover price $63.50 | About this edition: 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.
9780803912090 | Sage Pubns, May 1, 1979, cover price $63.50 | About this edition: This book of controversies over science and technology describes and analyses the struggles between different perspectives: between those who see technological development as a rational and objective process and those who see this process as primarily political.
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9780803944671 | 3 edition (Sage Pubns, March 1, 1992), cover price $27.50 | About this edition: 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.
9780803912106 | Sage Pubns, May 1, 1979, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: This book of controversies over science and technology describes and analyses the struggles between different perspectives: between those who see technological development as a rational and objective process and those who see this process as primarily political.
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9780029161951 | Free Pr, November 1, 1991, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: 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
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9780521404112 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 1, 1991, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: The impact of AIDS cannot be adequately measured by epidemiology alone.
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9780521407434 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 1, 1991, cover price $38.00 | About this edition: The impact of AIDS cannot be adequately measured by epidemiology alone.
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Explains why accurate science reporting is important, describes public relations ploys, and looks at biases, constraints and myth making in science journalism
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9780716719885 | W H Freeman & Co, August 1, 1988, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Explains why accurate science reporting is important, describes public relations ploys, and looks at biases, constraints and myth making in science journalism
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9780226571270 | Univ of Chicago Pr, May 1, 1984, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Examines the attitudes of American workers to the health risks of their jobs dealing with potentially hazardous chemicals
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9780226571287 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, April 15, 1986), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Examines the attitudes of American workers to the health risks of their jobs dealing with potentially hazardous chemicals
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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
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9780803924673 | Sage Pubns, May 1, 1985, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Risk in the workplace -- occupational health -- is an increasingly visible and complex issue.
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9780393016352 | 1 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1, 1982), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: 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
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9780807031551 | Reprint edition (Beacon Pr, May 1, 1984), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: 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
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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
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9780803922518 | 2 edition (Sage Pubns, January 1, 1984), cover price $27.50 | About this edition: 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.
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9780029490808 | McGraw-Hill, December 1, 1983, cover price $24.95
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9780262640213 | Mit Pr, March 30, 1982, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: Broadly based antinuclear movements made their voices heard in both France and Germany in recent years.
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9780807607220 | George Braziller, June 1, 1981, cover price $6.50
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Examines the history of French and German organizations that oppose the development of nuclear power and depicts the responses of governments to these movements
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9780262140348 | Mit Pr, February 1, 1981, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Examines the history of French and German organizations that oppose the development of nuclear power and depicts the responses of governments to these movements
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9780262640176 | Mit Pr, September 15, 1978, cover price $4.95
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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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9780803909021 | Sage Pubns, October 1, 1977, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: 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.
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9780878551118 | Transaction Pub, June 1, 1974, cover price $34.95
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9780878555918 | Transaction Pub, August 1, 1974, cover price $21.95
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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
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9780807606810 | George Braziller, March 1, 1973, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Focuses on the heroin addict in society and the merits and problems of methadone maintenance programs on a national as well as community level
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