Written for general readers, teachers, journalists, and policymakers,
this volume explores four controversial topics in science and
technology, with commentaries from scientists and experts in such fields
as sociology, religion, law, ethics, and politics: Antibiotics on the
Farm and in Our Food; Genetically Modified Crops and Gene Flow: the
science of genetic modification, genetic diversity, agricultural biotech
and the environment, corporate patents and farmers' rights; Women,
Hormone Replacement Theory, and Menopause: the history of hormone
replacement therapy, the medicalization of menopause, clinical practice;
Smallpox, Bioterrorism, and Public Health: historical and medical
overview of smallpox, the Emergency Health Powers Act, the war on
bioterrorism, public resistance vs. cooperation.