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Selling Science

How the Press Covers Science and Technology

By: Dorothy Nelkin

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Selling Science

How the Press Covers Science and Technology

By: Dorothy Nelkin

This text discusses how the media cover science and technology. This revised edition replaces cases with current ones. It features a revised analysis to reflect recent changes in the way science is reported, with more attention paid to coverage of scientific fraud, the split between highly critical and promotional treatment of science and the increased role of scientists in the media. The book also includes more coverage of television reporting of science.

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W H Freeman & Company

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0716725959

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9780716725954

The Creation Controversy

Science Or Scripture in the Schools

By: Dorothy Nelkin

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The Creation Controversy

Science Or Scripture in the Schools

By: Dorothy Nelkin

In 1999, by the board of education in Kansas voted to delete all mention of evolution from the state’s 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. Although evolutionary ideas have become increasing important to many scientific fields, the creationists still have significant influence on science curriculum. How have religious fundamentalists and right wing conservatives managed to have such influence? In this science-dominated age, why is their such opposition to the teaching of evolution? This book places the Kansas decision in the broader context of the controversy between creationists and evolutionists, as a group of religious fundamentalists who defined themselves as scientists have challenged the most basic assumptions of contemporary biology. Though motivated by religious beliefs, they have tried to bypass the Constitutional requirement for the separation of church and state as they seek to influence legislature and school boards. Looking at the people involved in this social movement and tracing changes in their arguments and strategies, this book links the creation-evolution controversy to broader questions about the meaning of religion in a secular science, public trust in science, and persistent concerns about its social and moral implications.

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iUniverse

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0595001947

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9780595001941

Dangerous Diagnostics

The Social Power of Biological Information

By: Dorothy Nelkin,Laurence R. Tancredi

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Dangerous Diagnostics

The Social Power of Biological Information

By: Dorothy Nelkin,Laurence R. Tancredi

A study of the pervasiveness of diagnostic testing and the potential it offers institutions to classify, categorize and ultimately control individuals. The ethical, social and legal implications of technologies that can lead to new forms of discrimination are also included.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226571297

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9780226571294

Workers At Risk

Voices from the Workplace

By: Dorothy Nelkin,Michael S. Brown

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Workers At Risk

Voices from the Workplace

By: Dorothy Nelkin,Michael S. Brown

Workers at Risk is a powerful and moving documentary of workers routinely exposed to toxic chemicals. Products and services we all depend on—glass bottles, computers, processed foods and fresh flowers, dry cleaning, medicines, even sculpture and silkscreened toys—are produced by workers in constant contact with more than 63,000 commercial chemicals. For many of them, the risk of death is a way of life. More than seventy of them speak here of their jobs, their health, and the difficult choices they face in coming to grips with the responsibilities, risks, fears, and satisfactions of their work. Some struggle for information and acknowledgment of their health risks; others struggle to put out of their minds the dangers they know too well. Through extensive interviews, the authors have captured in these voices that double bind of the chemical worker: "If I had known that it would be that lethal, that it could give me or one of my children cancer, I would have refused to work. But it's a matter of survival and we just don't consider all these things. Meanwhile, we've got to make money to survive.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226571270

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The DNA Mystique

The Gene as a Cultural Icon

By: Dorothy Nelkin,M. Susan Lindee

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The DNA Mystique

The Gene as a Cultural Icon

By: Dorothy Nelkin,M. Susan Lindee

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." --Nature The DNA Mystique suggests that the gene in popular culture draws on scientific ideas but is not constrained by the technical definition of the gene as a section of DNA that codes for a protein. In highlighting DNA as it appears in soap operas, comic books, advertising, and other expressions of mass culture, the authors propose that these domains provide critical insights into science itself. With a new introduction and conclusion, this edition will continue to be an engaging, accessible, and provocative text for the sociology, anthropology, and bioethics classroom, as well as stimulating reading for those generally interested in science and culture.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472025074

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9780472025077

The Molecular Gaze

Art in the Genetic Age

By: Suzanne Anker,Dorothy Nelkin

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The Molecular Gaze

Art in the Genetic Age

By: Suzanne Anker,Dorothy Nelkin

And they suggest the ways in which DNA representations relate to archetypal images that have appeared throughout the history of art."--BOOK JACKET.

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CSHL Press

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0879696974

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9780879696979

The Atom Besieged

Antinuclear Movements in France and Germany

By: Dorothy Nelkin,Michael Pollak

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The Atom Besieged

Antinuclear Movements in France and Germany

By: Dorothy Nelkin,Michael Pollak

How the social and political differences between France and Germany contributed to the success or failure of recent antinuclear movements.

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Mit Press

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026264021X

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The Creation Controversy

Science Or Scripture in the Schools

By: Dorothy Nelkin

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Science Or Scripture in the Schools

By: Dorothy Nelkin

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University and Military Research

Moral Politics at M.I.T.

By: Dorothy Nelkin

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University and Military Research

Moral Politics at M.I.T.

By: Dorothy Nelkin

The events leading up to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's decision to divest the controversial Instrumentation Laboratory are vividly set forth in this engrossing case study. The decision, announced on May 20, 1970, followed a year of efforts to cope with dissent focused on the issue of weapons-related research on campus. Several key issues are illuminated in the narrative: the problems of defining appropriate research and public service policy in universities; the social responsibility of scientists and engineers; and the complicated relationship between government sponsorship and university research.

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Cornell University Press

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1501742760

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A Disease of Society

Cultural and Institutional Responses to AIDS

By: Dorothy Nelkin

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A Disease of Society

Cultural and Institutional Responses to AIDS

By: Dorothy Nelkin

This book, first published in 1991, argues that AIDS is a 'disease of society', which is challenging and changing society profoundly.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521407435

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9780521407434

The DNA Mystique

The Gene as a Cultural Icon

By: Dorothy Nelkin,M. Susan Lindee

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The Gene as a Cultural Icon

By: Dorothy Nelkin,M. Susan Lindee

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University of Michigan Press

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Workers At Risk

Voices from the Workplace

By: Dorothy Nelkin,Michael S. Brown

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Voices from the Workplace

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University of Chicago Press

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0226571289

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Let's Talk about the Sabbath

By: Dorothy Karp Kripke

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Let's Talk about the Sabbath

By: Dorothy Karp Kripke

Explains the customs which make the Jewish sabbath a holy and joyful day.

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Torah Aura Productions

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1881283186

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Killing the Black Body

Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty

By: Dorothy Roberts

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Killing the Black Body

Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty

By: Dorothy Roberts

Killing the Black Body remains a rallying cry for education, awareness, and action on extending reproductive justice to all women. It is as crucial as ever, even two decades after its original publication. "A must-read for all those who claim to care about racial and gender justice in America." —Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow In 1997, this groundbreaking book made a powerful entrance into the national conversation on race. In a media landscape dominated by racially biased images of welfare queens and crack babies, Killing the Black Body exposed America’s systemic abuse of Black women’s bodies. From slave masters’ economic stake in bonded women’s fertility to government programs that coerced thousands of poor Black women into being sterilized as late as the 1970s, these abuses pointed to the degradation of Black motherhood—and the exclusion of Black women’s reproductive needs in mainstream feminist and civil rights agendas. “Compelling. . . . Deftly shows how distorted and racist constructions of black motherhood have affected politics, law, and policy in the United States.” —Ms.

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Vintage

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0679758690

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The Animal Rights Crusade

The Growth of a Moral Protest

By: James M. Jasper,Dorothy Nelkin

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The Animal Rights Crusade

The Growth of a Moral Protest

By: James M. Jasper,Dorothy Nelkin

History and analysis of the animal rights movement chronicling its development from kindly petlovers to groups fighting for animal "rights.

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0029161959

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Dangerous Diagnostics

The Social Power of Biological Information

By: Dorothy Nelkin,Laurence R. Tancredi

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The Social Power of Biological Information

By: Dorothy Nelkin,Laurence R. Tancredi

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Genetics and Ethics in Global Perspective

By: Dorothy C. Wertz,John C. Fletcher

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Genetics and Ethics in Global Perspective

By: Dorothy C. Wertz,John C. Fletcher

Dorothy Wertz and John Fletcher pioneered the first international study of ethical and social issues in genetics in 18 nations. This book reports and discusses their second and more representative study in 36 nations. The survey focused on actual situations that occur in the practice of medical genetics, presented as case vignettes that can also be used in teaching and policy discussion. Among the issues discussed are privacy, prenatal diagnosis, patient autonomy, directiveness in counseling, sex selection, forensic DNA banking, "genetic discrimination," and "eugenics". This is Dorothy Wertz's final book, as she died in April, 2003. It is a one of a kind cross-cultural study of complex ethical issues in the uses of genetic information. No one else has attempted to look at the international aspects of medical genetics on such a broad scale. The results provide a resource for discussion both within and among nations. Much bioethical and policy discussion now occurs in an information vacuum. The survey showed that what people would do, and their reasons for doing it, differed considerably from what ethicists think they "should" do. Many will be surprised at the results, especially in nations where bioethical discussion is just beginning. Genetics and Ethics in Global Perspective is of interest to medical geneticists, genetic counselors, social scientists and anthropologists who study cross-cultural issues, bioethicists and bioethics centers and health policy makers.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9400709811

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9789400709812

Rutter's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

By: Sir Michael J. Rutter,Dorothy Bishop,Daniel S. Pine,Stephen Scott,Jim S. Stevenson,Eric A. Taylor,Anita Thapar

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Rutter's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

By: Sir Michael J. Rutter,Dorothy Bishop,Daniel S. Pine,Stephen Scott,Jim S. Stevenson,Eric A. Taylor,Anita Thapar

Rutter’s Child and Adolescent Psychiatry has become an established and accepted textbook of child psychiatry. Now completely revised and updated, the fifth edition provides a coherent appraisal of the current state of the field to help trainee and practising clinicians in their daily work. It is distinctive in being both interdisciplinary and international, in its integration of science and clinical practice, and in its practical discussion of how researchers and practitioners need to think about conflicting or uncertain findings. This new edition now offers an entirely new section on conceptual approaches, and several new chapters, including: neurochemistry and basic pharmacology brain imaging health economics psychopathology in refugees and asylum seekers bipolar disorder attachment disorders statistical methods for clinicians This leading textbook provides an accurate and comprehensive account of current knowledge, through the integration of empirical findings with clinical experience and practice, and is essential reading for professionals working in the field of child and adolescent mental health, and clinicians working in general practice and community pediatric settings.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1444358715

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9781444358711

The Gramercy Tavern Cookbook

By: Michael Anthony,Dorothy Kalins

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The Gramercy Tavern Cookbook

By: Michael Anthony,Dorothy Kalins

One of the best New York restaurants, a culinary landmark that has been changing the face of American dining for decades, now shares its beloved recipes, stories, and pioneering philosophy. Opened in 1994, Gramercy Tavern is more than just a restaurant. It has become a New York institution earning dozens of accolades, including six James Beard awards. Its impeccable, fiercely seasonal cooking, welcoming atmosphere, and steadfast commitment to hospitality are unparalleled. The restaurant has its own magic—a sense of community and generosity—that’s captured in these pages for everyone to bring home and savor through 125 recipes. Restaurateur Danny Meyer’s intimate story of how Gramercy was born sets the stage for executive chef-partner Michael Anthony’s appealing approach to American cooking and recipes that highlight the bounty of the farmer’s market. With 200 sumptuous photographs and personal stories, The Gramercy Tavern Cookbook also gives an insider look into the things that make this establishment unique, from the artists who have shaped its décor and ambience, to the staff members who share what it is like to be a part of this close-knit restaurant family. Above all, food lovers will be inspired to make memorable meals and bring the warmth of Gramercy into their homes.

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Clarkson Potter

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0307888339

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9780307888334

Animal Instinct

By: Dorothy Hayes

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Animal Instinct

By: Dorothy Hayes

Eleanor Aquitaine Green, a savvy reporter and survivor of a painful divorce, discovers her true calling is crusading for the animals. Only days later, as if by divine providence, she lands a job in the animal rights movement. Before long, Eleanor realizes that her boss, Honor Vine, the president of People Against Animal Cruelty, is a burned out, aging tyrant stuck in a bygone era of the movement. Even worse, the movement Eleanor so admires is near death and is fractured with inner turmoil. A unifying issue is required and that issue, Eleanor believes, is the yearly slaughter of ten billion farm animals for human consumption. Convincing Americans to change their meateating ways borders on impossible, but it seems less difficult than working for her manipulative boss. An animal rights organization, however, is the perfect war room to wage such a battle, so Eleanor begins her crusade in the dysfunctional office. With the help of her brow beaten colleagues, Eleanor attempts to endure the daily batterings in order to gain some kindness for the animals. As a movement foot soldier, Eleanor campaigns against traps and wearing fur, she attempts to rescue a circus elephant, and also meets her other true love. But on the day that Honor is forced to pay for her abuse, both Honor and Eleanor are threatened by an unexpected outcome.

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