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14 produkter
Life Atomic
A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine
E-bok, 2013
627 kr
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After World War II, the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) began mass-producing radioisotopes, sending out nearly 64,000 shipments of radioactive materials to scientists and physicians by 1955. Even as the atomic bomb became the focus of Cold War anxiety, radioisotopes represented the government’s …
Feminism in Twentieth-Century Science, Technology, and Medicine
Av Angela N. H. Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
1035 kr
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What useful changes has feminism brought to science? Feminists have enjoyed success in their efforts to open many fields to women as participants. But the effects of feminism have not been restricted to altering employment and professional opportunities for women. The essays in this volume explore …
Feminism in Twentieth-Century Science, Technology, and Medicine
Av Angela N. H. Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
332 kr
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What useful changes has feminism brought to science? Feminists have enjoyed success in their efforts to open many fields to women as participants. But the effects of feminism have not been restricted to altering employment and professional opportunities for women. The essays in this volume explore …
Life Atomic
A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine
Häftad, 2015
324 kr
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After World War II, the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) began mass-producing radioisotopes, sending out nearly 64,000 shipments of radioactive materials to scientists and physicians by 1955. Even as the atomic bomb became the focus of Cold War anxiety, radioisotopes represented the government's …
Science Without Laws
Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives
Av Angela N. H. Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
387 kr
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Physicists regularly invoke universal laws, such as those of motion and electromagnetism, to explain events. Biological and medical scientists have no such laws. How then do they acquire a reliable body of knowledge about biological organisms and human disease? One way is by repeatedly returning …
Science without Laws
Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives
Av M. Norton Wise, Elizabeth Lunbeck m. fl.
E-bok, 2007
558 kr
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Physicists regularly invoke universal laws, such as those of motion and electromagnetism, to explain events. Biological and medical scientists have no such laws. How then do they acquire a reliable body of knowledge about biological organisms and human disease? One way is by repeatedly returning …
Negotiating Radiation Protection in the Nuclear Age
Histories of Exposure and Expertise
Av Maria Rentetzi, Angela N. H. Creager m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
1686 kr
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The development of nuclear technologies for war, medicine, and energy production dramatically increased the number of people exposed to artificial radioactivity and raised new stakes and questions about protecting them. This volume examines how the establishment of standards and protocols for …
Negotiating Radiation Protection in the Nuclear Age
Av Maria Rentetzi, Angela N. H. Creager m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
506 kr
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The development of nuclear technologies for war, medicine, and energy production dramatically increased the number of people exposed to artificial radioactivity and raised new stakes and questions about protecting them. This volume examines how the establishment of standards and protocols for …
Risk on the Table
Food Production, Health, and the Environment
Av Angela N. H. Creager, Jean-Paul Gaudillière
Inbunden, 2021
2186 kr
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Over the last century, the industrialization of agriculture and processing technologies have made food abundant and relatively inexpensive for much of the world’s population. Simultaneously, pesticides, nitrates, and other technological innovations intended to improve the food supply’s productivity …
Risk on the Table
Food Production, Health, and the Environment
Av Angela N. H. Creager, Jean-Paul Gaudillière
Häftad, 2024
463 kr
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Over the last century, the industrialization of agriculture and processing technologies have made food abundant and relatively inexpensive for much of the world’s population. Simultaneously, pesticides, nitrates, and other technological innovations intended to improve the food supply’s productivity …
Residues
Thinking Through Chemical Environments
Av Soraya Boudia, Angela N. H. Creager m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
302 kr
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Winner of the 2023 Merton Award from the Science, Knowledge, and Technology section of the American Sociological Association Residues offers readers a new approach for conceptualizing the environmental impacts of chemicals production, consumption, disposal, and regulation. Environmental protection …
Residues
Thinking Through Chemical Environments
Av Soraya Boudia, Angela N. H. Creager m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1749 kr
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Winner of the 2023 Merton Award from the Science, Knowledge, and Technology section of the American Sociological Association Residues offers readers a new approach for conceptualizing the environmental impacts of chemicals production, consumption, disposal, and regulation. Environmental protection …
Life of a Virus
Tobacco Mosaic Virus as an Experimental Model, 1930-1965
Inbunden, 2001
1261 kr
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We normally think of viruses in terms of the devastating diseases they cause, from smallpox to AIDS. But in The Life of a Virus, Angela N. H. Creager introduces us to a plant virus that has taught us much of what we know about all viruses, including the lethal ones, and that also played a crucial …
Science Without Laws
Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives
Av Angela N. H. Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
1273 kr
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Physicists regularly invoke universal laws, such as those of motion and electromagnetism, to explain events. Biological and medical scientists have no such laws. How then do they acquire a reliable body of knowledge about biological organisms and human disease? One way is by repeatedly returning …
