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  • Technology and Values

    by Danny M. Cohen, Richard DeGeorge, Hubert Dreyfus, Stacey Edgar, Rachelle Hollander, Deborah Mayo, John D. McDermott, Robert McGinn, Emmanuel Mesthene, Carl Mitcham, Thomas Murray, David Parnas, David Pimentel, Louis Pojman, Jesse Tatum, Langdon Winner ...
    Technology and Values provides a highly useful collection of essays organized around issues related to science, technology, public health, economics, the environment, and ethical theory. The editors present effective introductions that provide background information as well as philosophical tools and case studies to facilitate understanding of the variety of issues emanating from the most ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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  • Ethics and Science

    An Introduction

    by Adam Briggle, Carl Mitcham ...
    Series series Cambridge Applied Ethics
    Who owns your genes? What does climate science imply for policy? Do corporations conduct honest research? Should we teach intelligent design? Humans are creating a new world through science. The kind of world we are creating will not simply be decided by expanding scientific knowledge, but will depend on views about good and bad, right and wrong. These visions, in turn, depend on critical thinking ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • The Ethics of Invention

    Technology and the Human Future

    by Sheila Jasanoff ...
    We live in a world increasingly governed by technology—but to what end?Technology rules us as much as laws do. It shapes the legal, social, and ethical environments in which we act. Every time we cross a street, drive a car, or go to the doctor, we submit to the silent power of technology. Yet, much of the time, the influence of technology on our lives goes unchallenged by citizens and our elected ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • How Culture Shapes the Climate Change Debate

    by Andrew J. Hoffman ...
    Though the scientific community largely agrees that climate change is underway, debates about this issue remain fiercely polarized. These conversations have become a rhetorical contest, one where opposing sides try to achieve victory through playing on fear, distrust, and intolerance. At its heart, this split no longer concerns carbon dioxide, greenhouse gases, or climate modeling; rather, it is ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • The Age of Sustainability

    Just Transitions in a Complex World

    by Mark Swilling ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development
    With transitions to more sustainable ways of living already underway, this book examines how we understand the underlying dynamics of the transitions that are unfolding. Without this understanding, we enter the future in a state of informed bewilderment.Every day we are bombarded by reports about ecosystem breakdown, social conflict, economic stagnation and a crisis of identity. There is mounting ... Read more

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  • Designs on Nature

    Science and Democracy in Europe and the United States

    by Sheila Jasanoff ...
    Biology and politics have converged today across much of the industrialized world. Debates about genetically modified organisms, cloning, stem cells, animal patenting, and new reproductive technologies crowd media headlines and policy agendas. Less noticed, but no less important, are the rifts that have appeared among leading Western nations about the right way to govern innovation in genetics and ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • Trust Us, We're Experts PA

    How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future

    by Sheldon Rampton, John Stauber ...
    **The authors of Toxic Sludge Is Good for You! unmask the sneaky and widespread methods industry uses to influence opinion through bogus experts, doctored data, and manufactured facts.**We count on the experts. We count on them to tell us who to vote for, what to eat, how to raise our children. We watch them on TV, listen to them on the radio, read their opinions in magazine and newspaper articles ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Science and Technology for Development

    by James Smith ...
    Series series Development Matters
    How can science realize its potential and help us tackle global inequality, environmental change and crippling poverty? How can more appropriate technologies be developed for those most in need? Science has long promised much -- new crops, new medicines, new sources of energy, new means of communication -- but the potential of new technologies has frequently bypassed the poorest people and the ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • A Tapestry of Values

    An Introduction to Values in Science

    by Kevin C. Elliott ...
    The role of values in scientific research has become an important topic of discussion in both scholarly and popular debates. Pundits across the political spectrum worry that research on topics like climate change, evolutionary theory, vaccine safety, and genetically modified foods has become overly politicized. At the same time, it is clear that values play an important role in science by limiting ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Dreamscapes of Modernity

    Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power

    by Sheila Jasanoff, Sang-hyun Kim ...
    Dreamscapes of Modernity offers the first book-length treatment of sociotechnical imaginaries, a concept originated by Sheila Jasanoff and developed in close collaboration with Sang-Hyun Kim to describe how visions of scientific and technological progress carry with them implicit ideas about public purposes, collective futures, and the common good. The book presents a mix of case studies—including ... Read more

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  • The Gifts of Athena

    Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy

    by Joel Mokyr ...
    The growth of technological and scientific knowledge in the past two centuries has been the overriding dynamic element in the economic and social history of the world. Its result is now often called the knowledge economy. But what are the historical origins of this revolution and what have been its mechanisms? In The Gifts of Athena, Joel Mokyr constructs an original framework to analyze the ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • Global Political Ecology

    Edited by Richard Peet, Paul Robbins, Michael Watts ...
    The world is caught in the mesh of a series of environmental crises. So far attempts at resolving the deep basis of these have been superficial and disorganized. Global Political Ecology links the political economy of global capitalism with the political ecology of a series of environmental disasters and failed attempts at environmental policies.This critical volume draws together contributions ... Read more

    $70.99 USD