Science and Society (A Longman Topics Reader)

by Grinnell, Richard M.

• ISBN13: 9780321318114
• ISBN10: 0321318110
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2019-07-27
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

Science and Society by Richard W. Grinnell focuses on the ways that science is working with, in, and on our twenty-first century lives. This reader gives students the opportunity to engage with particular and specific types of scientific discovery, as well as the opportunity to join writers and thinkers in a contemplation of the impact and importance of those discoveries to the ways in which we all live.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xiii
What Is Science?	p. 1
What Is Science?	p. 3
Alchemy	p. 7
Why We Need to Understand Science	p. 11
Revolutionary New Insoles Combine Five Forms of Pseudoscience	p. 19
Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs	p. 22
Science, Lies, and the Ultimate Truth	p. 31
Why Science Must Adapt to Women	p. 34
School Boards Want to 'Teach the Controversy.' What Controversy?	p. 42
Ethics Statement	p. 45
What Is Science?: Exploring Connections	p. 48
Science and Human Behavior	p. 49
Of Altruism, Heroism and Nature's Gifts in the Face of Terror	p. 50
The Strategies of Human Mating	p. 55
You Dirty Vole	p. 70
Apes of Wrath	p. 76
Whose Life Would You Save?	p. 83
Science and Human Behavior: Exploring Connections	p. 92
Bodies and Genes	p. 93
DNA as Destiny	p. 95
My Little Brother on Drugs	p. 105
Designer Babies	p. 115
The Year of the Clone?	p. 119
Stripped for Parts	p. 122
Bodies and Genes: Making Connections	p. 130
Science and the Environment	p. 131
Thinking Like a Mountain	p. 132
Ice Memory	p. 135
Warm, Warmer, Warmest	p. 149
Will Frankenfood Save the Planet?	p. 152
Easter Island's End	p. 164
Earth Without People	p. 175
Science and the Environment: Making Connections	p. 182
Frontiers	p. 183
The Man Who Mistook His Girlfriend for a Robot	p. 185
The Next Brainiacs	p. 193
Will Drugs Make Us Smarter and Happier?	p. 209
Launching the Right Stuff	p. 218
How to Build a Time Machine	p. 225
Pondering the Future's Future	p. 231
Frontiers: Making Connections	p. 235
Credits	p. 237
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