Controversies in Science and Technology: From Maize to Menopause

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Contents Acknowledgements xi Introduction: From Maize to Menopause 3 Abby J. Kinchy, Daniel Lee Kleinman, and Jo Handelsman Part 1: Overuse of Antibiotics on the Farm 1 Antibiotic Resistance: The Agricultural Connection 23 Christine Mlot 2 Agricultural Antibiotics: Features of a Controversy 37 Brian Martin 3 Agricultural Uses of Antibiotics: Evaluating Possible Safety Concerns 52 Abigail A. Salyers 4 Antibiotics in Animal Agriculture: An Ecosystem Dilemma 67 Randall S. Singer 5 The Impact of Antibiotic Use in Agriculture on Human Health and the Appropriate Public Policy Response 83 Tamar Barlam Part 2: Genetically Modified Crops: Global Issues 6 Genetic Modification and Gene Flow: An Overview 107 Allison A. Snow 7 Introduction of Transgenic Crops in Centers of Origin and Domestication 119 Paul Gepts vii 8 Agricultural Biotechnology Science Compromised: The Case of Quist and Chapela 135 Kenneth A. Worthy, Richard C. Strohman, Paul R. Billings, and the Berkeley Biotechnology Working Group 9 Hard Red Spring Wheat at a Genetic Crossroad: Rural Prosperity or Corporate Hegemony? 150 R. Dennis Olson 10 Agricultural Biotechnology and the Environmental Challenge 169 Peter H. Raven Part 3: Hormone Replacement Therapy and Menopause: Science, Culture, and History 11 Postmenopausal Hormones: An Overview 181 Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller 12 The Medicalization of Menopause in America, 1897–2000: Mapping the Terrain 198 Judith A. Houck 13 The History of Hormone Replacement Therapy: A Timeline 219 Barbara Seaman 14 Symptom Reporting at the End of Menstruation: Biological Variation and Cultural Difference 236 Margaret Lock 15 Evidence-based Medicine and Clinical Practice 254 David L. DeMets Part 4 Smallpox and Bioterrorism 16 Smallpox: The Disease, the Virus, and the Vaccine 273 Dixie D. Whitt 17 The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act: A Tool for Public Health Preparedness 283 Lesley Stone, Lawrence O. Gostin, and James G. Hodge Jr. 18 The States and the War against Bioterrorism: Reactions to the Federal Smallpox Campaign and the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act 297 David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz viii Contents 19 Public Resistance or Cooperation? A Tale of Smallpox in Two Cities 311 Judith Walzer Leavitt Contributors 327 Index 335 Contents ix ...