The Regulation of Science and Technology

by Helen Lawton Smith (Editor)

Overview

The worst chemical disaster ever could be happening right now. In India and Bangladesh between forty and eighty million people are at risk of consuming too much arsenic from well water that might have already caused one hundred thousand cancer cases and thousands of deaths. Many millions elsewhere in South-East Asia and South America may soon suffer a similar fate. Venomous Earth is the story of this tragedy: the geology, the biology, the politics and the history. It starts in Ancient Greece, touches down in today's North America and takes in William Morris, alchemy, farming, medicine, mining and a cosmetic that killed two popes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333790458
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	11/28/2001
Edition description:	2002

About the Author

Helen Lawton Smith is Research Fellow in the Centre for Local Economic Development (CLED), Coventry University, and Director of Science Policy Studies of the Regulartory Policy Research Centre (RPRC) at Hertford College, Oxford University.

Table of Contents

The Devil's Water A Natural Disaster Fool's Gold The Verdant Assassin Healing Arsenic To Frustrate The Aim Of Justice Nothing Green Met The Eye The Extraordinarily Protracted Process Fighting Arsenic

Editorial Reviews

Ten of the twelve papers are from a March 1996 seminar at Hertford College, England, called to present perspectives of academics, policy makers, industrialists, and representatives from pressure groups on the regulatory processes governing the production, ownership, and exploitation of science and technology. They find a link between the political-regulatory climate, the kind of research conducted, how that research is utilized by industry, and the intent to which it is used. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)