UID:
almafu_9959328626302883
Format:
1 online resource (xviii, 211 pages)
ISBN:
9780470292075
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0470292075
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9780813805139
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0813805139
Content:
Origins of the Organic Agriculture Debate takes an historical look at two contrasting streams of ideas. The first view comprises the flow of ideas in chemistry and biology that have created the conditions for modern medicine, modern food production and the biotechnological revolution. The second view is the ""vitalist"" reaction to the rise of modern science and the resulting rejection of modern agriculture. Contemporary proponents of ""organic"" agriculture and the anti-genetically modified food movement believe that ""pure"" food confers some special kind of virtue both on those.
Note:
Origins of The Organic Agriculture Debate; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. Science, Technology, and the Critics of Modernity; 2. Science, Integrated Inquiry, and Verification; 3. Reductionism: Sin, Salvation, or Neither?; 4. On the Trail of DNA: Genes and Heredity; 5. Vitalism and Homeopathy; 6. Disenchantment and the Cost of Rejected Knowledge; 7. Rejected Knowledge, Nature, and the Occult; 8. Vitalism, the Organic, and the Precautionary Principle; 9. Feeding Six Billion People; 10. Romantics and Reactionaries; 11. Risk, Representation, and Change.
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Epilogue: Science, Technology, and HumanityReferences; Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: DeGregori, Thomas R. Origins of the organic agriculture debate. Ames, Iowa : Iowa State Press, ©2004 ISBN 0813805139
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813805139
Language:
English
Keywords:
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DOI:
10.1002/9780470292075
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470292075
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470292075
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470292075
