What scientists think
In engaging and lucid discussion, twelve of the world's leading scientists and scientific thinkers clarify many of the most urgent scientific challenges and dilemmas facing science today.
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- Full title :What scientists think / [edited by] Jeremy Stangroom.
Summary
In engaging and lucid discussion, twelve of the world's leading scientists and scientific thinkers clarify many of the most urgent scientific challenges and dilemmas facing science today.
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- Publication Date:2005.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Routledge
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2005.
The Physical Object
- Description:xii, 194 pages ; : 20 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0415334268, 9780415334266, 0415334276, 9780415334273, 9780203415047, 0203415043, 9781134314270, 1134314272, 9781134314225, 1134314221, 9781134314263, 1134314264
- oclc:ocm56834489
- LC Classification:QH309
- Dewey Decimal:570
Table of Contents
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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