What scientists think

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Presents a lucid discussion, where twelve of the world's leading scientists and scientific thinkers clarify many of the complex scientific challenges and dilemmas facing science.

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Full title :What scientists think / [edited by] Jeremy Stangroom.

Summary

Presents a lucid discussion, where twelve of the world's leading scientists and scientific thinkers clarify many of the complex scientific challenges and dilemmas facing science.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2005.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2005.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xii, 194 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0203415043, 9780203415047
oclc:ocm61710382
LC Classification:QH309
Dewey Decimal:570

Introduction -- The interviews -- Darwinism and genes / Steve Jones -- Evolutionary psychology and the blank slate / Steven Pinker -- The human brain and consciousness / Susan Greenfield -- Science and the human animal / Kenan Malik -- Cybernetics and a post-human future / Kevin Warwick -- Psychiatry and schizophrenia / Robin Murray -- Microbiology, viruses and their threats / Dorothy Crawford -- On cancer research / Mike Stratton -- Animal experimentation, ethics and medical research / Colin Blakemore -- Science under threat / Norman Levitt -- Biodiversity / Edward O. Wilson -- Science: its dangers and its public / Martin Rees -- Further reading.

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Life Sciences Life sciences -- Popular works NATURE -- Reference Popular works Science SCIENCE -- Life Sciences Science -- Popular works Sciences -- Ouvrages de vulgarisation Sciences de la vie -- Ouvrages de vulga… Scientists