Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. From The Impact of Science on Society by Bertram Russell , Routledge ( Unwin Hyman 1951 ) , Bertram ... 1981 James F. Childress . permission of Westminster John Knox Press .
Examines scientific discoveries and developments within their historic context, showing how social trends and events influenced science and how scientific developments changed people's lives.
Science, Technology, and Society
Technology abounds: information tech nology, communication technology, learning technology. As a once popular song went, "Something's happening here, but it's just not exactly clear." The world appears to be a smaller, less remote place.
Profiles the lives and accomplishments of ten people who made some of the most progressive steps in changing the way society views science and technology, including J. Robert Oppenheimer, Ian Wilmut, William Shockley, and Patrick C. Steptoe ...
This book gathers inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary perspectives on the effects that today's advances in science and technology have on issues ranging from government policy-making to how we see the differences between men and women ...
'Science, Technology, and Society' offers approximately 150 articles written by major scholars and experts from academic and scientific institutions worldwide.
Science, Technology, and Society: A Sociological Approach is a comprehensive guide to the emergent field of science, technology, and society studies and its implications for today’s culture and society. Written...
A systematic, integrated exploration of the relationship between science and technology and modern society – from a sociological and philosophical perspective.
This volume will take a comprehensive view of STS education, the goals of which are manifold, and include making science and technology literacy available for all Americans, preparing those not bound for college to compete successfully in ...
Presents more htan one hundred topical and biographical essays designed to help students understand the impact that nineteenth-century science had on the course of human history. (back cover.).
Examines scientific discoveries and developments within their historic context, showing how social trends and events influenced science and how scientific developments changed people's lives.
Frontiers of Illusion: Science, Technology, and the Politics of Progress. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996. A sharp critique of the myths that guide science and technology policy in the United States, ...
Examines scientific discoveries and developments within their historic context, showing how social trends and events influenced science and how scientific developments changed people's lives.