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| 1. |  | Title: Risk and rationality: philosophical foundations for populist reforms  Author: Shrader-Frechette, K. S 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Philosophy | Ethics | Social Problems | Political Theory Publisher's Description: Only ten to twelve percent of Americans would voluntarily live within a mile of a nuclear plant or hazardous waste facility. But industry spokespersons claim that such risk aversion represents ignorance and paranoia, and they lament that citizen protests have delayed valuable projects and increased . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Averting catastrophe: strategies for regulating risky technologies Author: Morone, Joseph G Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Environmental Studies | History and Philosophy of Science | Politics Publisher's Description: Chernobyl, Bhopal, and Love Canal are symbols of the potentially catastrophic risks that go hand in hand with much modern technology. This volume is a non-partisan study of the imperfect but steadily developing system for containing the risks of such technologies as chemicals, nuclear power, and gen . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Burying uncertainty: risk and the case against geological disposal of nuclear waste Author: Shrader-Frechette, K. S. (Kristin Sharon) Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Science | Ecology | Public Policy Publisher's Description: Shrader-Frechette looks at current U.S. government policy regarding the nation's high-level radioactive waste both scientifically and ethically.What should be done with our nation's high-level radioactive waste, which will remain hazardous for thousands of years? This is one of the most pressing pro . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: The elusive embryo: how women and men approach new reproductive technologies Author: Becker, Gaylene Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Sociology | Gender Studies | Medical Anthropology | Medicine | Women's Studies | Science Publisher's Description: In the first book to examine the industry of reproductive technology from the perspective of the consumer, Gay Becker scrutinizes the staggering array of medical options available to women and men with fertility problems and assesses the toll - both financial and emotional - that the quest for a bio . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Telematic embrace: visionary theories of art, technology, and consciousness Author: Ascott, Roy Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Art | Art Theory | Electronic Media Publisher's Description: Long before e-mail and the Internet permeated society, Roy Ascott, a pioneering British artist and theorist, coined the term "telematic art" to describe the use of online computer networks as an artistic medium. In Telematic Embrace Edward A. Shanken gathers, for the first time, an impressive compil . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Lives at risk: public health in nineteenth-century Egypt Author: Kuhnke, LaVerne Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology Publisher's Description: Lives at Risk describes the introduction of Western medicine into Egypt. The two major innovations undertaken by Muhammad Ali in the mid-nineteenth century were a Western-style school of medicine and an international Quarantine Board. The ways in which these institutions succeeded and failed will gr . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: What machines can't do: politics and technology in the industrial enterprise Author: Thomas, Robert Joseph 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Economics and Business | Politics | Sociology | Technology and Society Publisher's Description: Virtually every manufacturing company has plans for an automated "factory of the future." But Robert J. Thomas argues that smart machines may not hold the key to an industrial renaissance. In this provocative and enlightening book, he takes us inside four successful manufacturing enterprises to reve . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Technology and gender: fabrics of power in late imperial China Author: Bray, Francesca Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | History | China | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In this feminist history of eight centuries of private life in China, Francesca Bray inserts women into the history of technology and adds technology to the history of women. Bray takes issue with the Orientalist image that traditional Chinese women were imprisoned in the inner quarters, deprived of . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: No safe place: toxic waste, leukemia, and community action Author: Brown, Phil Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Sociology | American Studies | Ecology | Medicine | Technology and Society Publisher's Description: Toxic waste, contaminated water, cancer clusters - these phrases suggest deception and irresponsibility. But more significantly, they are watchwords for a growing struggle between communities, corporations, and government. In No Safe Place , sociologists, public policy professionals, and activists w . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Technology and scholarly communication Author: Ekman, Richard Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Media Studies | Technology and Society | Library Science | Reference | Economics and Business | Electronic Media Publisher's Description: Electronic publishing has been gaining ground in recent years and is now a recognized part of the digital world. In the most comprehensive assessment of electronic publishing to date, thirty-one scholars, librarians, and publishers focus specifically on scholarly publishing. They analyze a number of . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Technopolis: high-technology industry and regional development in southern California Author: Scott, Allen John Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Urban Studies | Geography | Politics Publisher's Description: Technopolis is a timely theoretical and empirical investigation of the world's largest high-technology industrial complex - Southern California. Allen Scott provides a new conceptual framework for understanding urban and regional growth processes based on a combination of inter-industrial, labor mar . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Modern Japanese organization and decision-making Author: Vogel, Ezra F Published: University of California Press, 1985 Subjects: Asian Studies | Sociology | Economics and Business Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Bureaucracy, politics, and decision making in post-Mao China Author: Lieberthal, Kenneth Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics | China Publisher's Description: Using a model of "fragmented authoritarianism," this volume sharpens our view of the inner workings of the Chinese bureaucracy. The contributors' interviews with politically well-placed bureaucrats and scholars, along with documentary and field research, illuminate the bargaining and maneuvering amo . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: High-Tech Europe: the politics of international cooperation Author: Sandholtz, Wayne Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics | Public Policy | Economics and Business | Technology and Society Publisher's Description: A study of cooperative efforts in the high-tech industries of Europe. Sandholtz examines why collaboration came late to these countries, how protective walls came down, how countries work together in economically sensitive areas.Governments have recognized for decades the dynamic role played by micr . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: A shield in space?: technology, politics, and the strategic defense initiative: how the Reagan Administration set out to make nuclear weapons "impotent and obsolete" and succumbed to the fallacy of the last move Author: Lakoff, Sanford A Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Politics | Political Theory | Technology and Society Publisher's Description: In March 1983, Ronald Reagan made one of the most controversial announcements of his presidency when he called on the nation's scientists and engineers to develop a defensive shield so impenetrable as to make nuclear weapons "impotent and obsolete." This book provides the first comprehensive review . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Technology as freedom: the New Deal and the electrical modernization of the American home Author: Tobey, Ronald C Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | American Studies | Technology and Society | United States History Publisher's Description: Before 1930, the domestic market for electrical appliances was segmented, but New Deal policies and programs created a true mass market, reshaping the electrical and housing markets and guiding them toward mandated social goals. The New Deal identified electrical refrigeration as a key technology to . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Draw the lightning down: Benjamin Franklin and electrical technology in the Age of Enlightenment Author: Schiffer, Michael B Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Urban Studies | History of Science | Anthropology | American Studies | European History Publisher's Description: Most of us know - at least we've heard - that Benjamin Franklin conducted some kind of electrical experiment with a kite. What few of us realize - and what this book makes powerfully clear - is that Franklin played a major role in laying the foundations of modern electrical science and technology. T . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Engineering trouble: biotechnology and its discontents Author: Schurman, Rachel Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology | Conservation | EcologyEvolutionEnvironment | Technology and Society | Agriculture | Technology | Public Policy Publisher's Description: Talk of genetically engineered organisms (GEOs) has moved from the hushed corridors of life science corporations to the front pages of the world's major newspapers. As Europeans began rejecting genetically engineered foods in the marketplace, the StarLink corn incident exploded in the United States . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Beyond second opinions: making choices about fertility treatment Author: Turiel, Judith Steinberg 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Science | Sociology | Gender Studies | Medicine Publisher's Description: Beyond Second Opinions is both an exposé of the risks, errors, and distortions surrounding fertility medicine and an authoritative guide for people seeking treatment. Accessible, comprehensive, and extremely well-informed, this book takes the reader beyond hype to the hard data on diagnoses and trea . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Alternative modernity: the technical turn in philosophy and social theory Author: Feenberg, Andrew Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Philosophy | Social and Political Thought | History and Philosophy of Science | Popular Culture Publisher's Description: In this new collection of essays, Andrew Feenberg argues that conflicts over the design and organization of the technical systems that structure our society shape deep choices for the future. A pioneer in the philosophy of technology, Feenberg demonstrates the continuing vitality of the critical the . . . [more] Similar Items |