Technology and Social Shock
- ISBN-10
- 0813507812
- ISBN-13
- 9780813507811
- Category
- Social history
- Pages
- 648
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1977
- Publisher
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press
- Author
- Edward W. Lawless
Description
USA. Monograph on the social implications and public opinion impact of innovations in technology - presents 45 case studies of public alarm concerning foods, industrial waste, medicine, pesticides, etc. And portraying the role of mass media in information dissemination.
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