Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 345 Seiten).
ISBN:
9780197551523
Inhalt:
"The veteran journalist Tim Radford, who headed up the science desk at the UK's Guardian newspaper for more than two decades, was once interviewed by a government committee charged with investigating the fragile relationship between "science and society." In a lengthy report submitted to the House of Lords in February, 2000, the committee noted that the public's faith in both science and government had been shaken over the preceding years - in part by an outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, colloquially known as "mad cow disease." This and the swift rise of biotechnology, the burgeoning internet age, and other fast-moving manifestations of human ingenuity, it was determined, were creating an air of anxiety and mistrust"--
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780197551509
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Allgemeines
Schlagwort(e):
Wissenschaftspublizistik
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Handbuch
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Journalismus
;
Wissenschaftlicher Text
;
Populärwissenschaftliche Darstellung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Electronic books
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