Science and Society (A Longman Topics Reader)
by Grinnell, Richard M.Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2019-07-27
Publisher(s): Pearson
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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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