The Land Remembers: The Story of a Farm and Its People

Written for general readers, teachers, journalists, and policymakers, this volume explores four controversial topics in science and technology, with commentaries from scientists and experts in such fields as sociology, religion, law, ethics, and politics: Antibiotics on the Farm and in Our Food; Genetically Modified Crops and Gene Flow: the science of genetic modification, genetic diversity, agricultural biotech and the environment, corporate patents and farmers' rights; Women, Hormone Replacement Theory, and Menopause: the history of hormone replacement therapy, the medicalization of menopause, clinical practice; Smallpox, Bioterrorism, and Public Health: historical and medical overview of smallpox, the Emergency Health Powers Act, the war on bioterrorism, public resistance vs. cooperation.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 05/23/2017
ISBN: 9780299309046
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 1.00d
Large Print
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 16827 / Land Remembers
Reading Level: 5.4 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 13