Impact of science and technology on society

This provocative, deeply personal book explores how women experience mental health care differently than menand lays out how the system must change for women to flourish.

In health care, we come across daily promises of miraculous cures for various ailments.

Intended for students and general readers alike, this encyclopedia covers the history of human medical experimentation, for better and worse, from the time of Hippocrates to the present.

From quantum to biological and digital, here eminent scientists, philosophers and theologians chart various aspects of information.

This book offers comparative insights into the challenges and opportunities surrounding emerging technology and the internet as it is used and perceived throughout the world, providing students with cross-cultural and cross-national perspectives.

Display technology is evolving at an impressive rate with LCD and flat panel technologies gaining an increasing market share over traditional CRT display applications.

Originally published in 1830, this book can be called the first modern work in the philosophy of science, covering an extraordinary range of philosophical, methodological, and scientific subjects.

Der Klimawandel schreitet voran, die Gesellschaft ist tief gespalten und der Wirtschaft droht ein Kollaps verheerenden Ausmaßes.

How can you increase innovation at local levels and build new technology hotspots?

Why are some countries better than others at science and technology (S&T)?

Provides a comprehensive introduction to the human, social and economic aspects of science and technology.

In 2011, amid the popular uprising against Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, the government sought in vain to shut down the Internet-based social networks of its people.

Although the Information Age is often described as a new era, a cultural leap springing directly from the invention of modern computers, it is simply the latest step in a long cultural process.

Following the rapid development of connected technologies, which are now highly sophisticated and spread across the globe, Society 5.

A thought-provoking analysis of how the acquisition and utilization of information has determined the course of history over the past five centuries and shaped the world as we know it today Information is power.

Advanced industrial nations face many difficult political and economic problems due to the accelerating pace and evolving character of technological change.

Genetic engineering has quickly become one of the more controversial issues of our time.

Winner of the International Federation for Family Development Award.

The recently-coined term digital religion refers to the understanding that contemporary religion is practiced in both online and offline contexts, and these contexts intersect with one another.

Computers, now the writer's tool of choice, are still blamed by skeptics for a variety of ills, from speeding writing up to the point of recklessness, to complicating or trivializing the writing process, to destroying the English language itself.

Technology is rapidly moving into our bodies, writes cyber expert Keenan, and this book gives a chilling look ahead into where that road may lead us on a one way trip to the total surrender of privacy and the commoditization of intimacy.

Grandmother Andre told stories in front of a campfire.

We're being formed by our devices.

Karl Ulrichs's studies of sexual diversity galvanized the burgeoning field of sexual science in the nineteenth century.

At the turn of the twenty-first century, typical households were equipped with a landline telephone, a desktop computer connected to a dial-up modem, and a shared television set.

Using the modern home as a springboard, Atoms under the Floorboards introduces the reader to the fascinating and surprising scientific explanations behind a variety of common (and often entertainingly mundane) household phenomena, from gurgling drains and squeaky floorboards to rubbery custard and shiny shoes.

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist James Ball takes us into the depths of the internet to trace the origins and rapid ascent of QAnon, the movement that mutated from a niche online conspiracy theory into the world's first digital pandemic.

The impact of science and technology on culture raises a number of questions about the ways in which people relate to each other and to their environment.

As more of our human interaction moves online and facilitated by digital channels, it becomes increasingly important to understand how being online influences how we interact with others and ourselves.

Case studies, personal accounts, and analysis show how to recognize and combat pseudoscience in a post-truth world.

Combining perspectives from both continental and analytic philosophy, this timely volume explores how imagination today both shapes and is shaped by technology, art and ethics.

Black Networked Resistance explores the creative range of Black digital users and their responses to varying forms of oppression, utilizing cultural, communicative, political, and technological threads both on and offline.

AMERICAN DEMOCRACY IS AT RISKNo oneconservative or liberalshould be comfortable with a few Silicon Valleyoligarchs having a monopoly over the marketplace of ideas, and with it, democracy itself.

How cell phones and mobile communication may in many cases strengthen social cohesion.

Virtues have become a valuable and relevant resource for understanding modern science and technology.

Profiling 60 medical innovations and milestones from the 11th through 21st centuries, this book highlights the people and stories behind these key moments while also exploring their historical context and enduring legacy.

Human experiences are disappearing.

How the presence of the tsetse fly turned the African forest into an open laboratory where African knowledge formed the basis of colonial tsetse control policies.

Individuals are things that everybody knows-or thinks they do.

Now that we've sold ourselves to ourselves, shuffling letters and sounds around to hide the pain, how do we represent the uncanny valley in which we've set up shop?

New perspectives on digital scholarship that speak to today's computational realities Scholars across the humanities, social sciences, and information sciences are grappling with how best to study virtual environments, use computational tools in their research, and engage audiences with their results.

Esta obra, más que tratar de una filosofía de la ciencia general, consiste, por un lado, en un análisis de los problemas que plantea la relación de la actividad científica con otras actividades humanas, y por otro, en el examen de los problemas epistemológicos, ontológicos y metafísicos que surgen en las diferentes ciencias particulares.

An examination of work, the organization of work, and the market forces that surround it, through the lens of the collaborative practice of game development.

Successful strategies and principles for using information technology to transform regional and community economies exist, and they are presented here with clarity and insight in a way that is useful to both practitioners and researchers.