Battleground: Science and Technology

Subjects:

• Science » Science (General)
• Political Science » Public Policy
• Health/Medicine » Health/Medicine (General)

Reviews:

• This collection of essays by various authors, wide ranging in their backgrounds and qualifications and covering a wide expanse of topics, goes beyond the scope of most encyclopedia-type volumes....This resource will prove useful to teachers and students. It summarizes in one compact place many of the aspects of issues around which some controversy swirls. These essays, especially the lengthier ones, can serve as starting points for more elaborate and in-depth investigation of topics. This text offers instant access (through the table of contents) to information that can lead in many directions for more investigations. It's a worthwhile addition to a classroom resource bank for information on the implications of scientific and technological applications to society.
  —NSTA Recommends 6/30/1905
• "Examples of subjects tackled by the volumes include alien abductions, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, chaos theory, drugs and direct-to-consumer advertising, the Gaia hypothesis, genetically modified organisms, green building design, information technology, intellectual property, medical marijuana, parapsychology, quarks, reproductive technology, research ethics, the scientific method, urban warfare, virtual reality, waste management, and wind energy. The entries are written in a style accessible to beginning undergraduates and up."
  —SciTech Book News 3/1/2009
• "Battleground: Science & Technology offers a basic introduction and overview to the topics addressed...This set is most appropriate for high school libraries, public libraries, and community college library that have a need for introductory material on the topics presented."
  —ARBA 3/1/2009
• "This is the seventh in the publisher's Battleground series exploring today's controversial topics. The
  editors of this entry approach science and technology as they relate to culture and society. However,
  “science and technology” is a much broader subject than those treated in other Battleground titles, and that
  makes the coverage here seem less focused. Topics range from the really broad, such as Social sciences, to
  the very specific, such as Green building design. In between are subjects as varied as Censorship, Coal,
  and Healing touch. The contributors have a range of backgrounds and experience, some not directly related to their topics. Some of their contributions are philosophic discussions of the assigned topics, while others give more
  prosaic accounts of the history of their topics and the pros and cons. There is a good index, and crossreferences
  are provided for each entry. Each entry also includes a selection of further readings, the currency of which varies. The reading level varies from article to article as well, but overall this would probably be best suited for a college-level audience looking for brief introductions. It's hard to know how libraries will use this title, since the treatment is so broad that it is likely to be overlooked by a patron doing research on a specific topic."
  —Booklist 5/1/2009

Table of 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

PDF Catalogs:
Greenwood School and Public Library Reference Spring 2008.pdf	Greenwood School and Public Library Reference 2009.pdf
Greenwood Science and Health 2008.pdf