Stories
- Article
Guerrilla public health
From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.
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The birth of the public museum
The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.
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People against pollution
Alice Bell reflects on what happens when communities help solve environmental problems, and whether citizen science can help fight industrial pollution today.
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The ‘undesirable epileptic’
Abused in her marriage for being 'a sick woman', Aparna Nair looked to history to make sense of the response to her epilepsy. She discovered how centuries of fear and discrimination were often endorsed by science and legislation.
Catalogue
- Books
On being a scientist : responsible conduct in research / Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy.
Date: 1995- Books
Facilitating interdisciplinary research / Committee on Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research, Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine.
Date: [2005], ©2005- Books
Capitalizing on investments in science and technology / Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy ; National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine.
Date: 1999- Books
Major award decisionmaking at the National Science Foundation / Panel on NSF Decisionmaking for Major Awards, Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy.
Date: 1994- Books
Policy implications of greenhouse warming / Policy Implications of Greenhouse Warming--Synthesis Panel, Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy [and others].
Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (U.S.). Policy Implications of Greenhouse Warming--Synthesis Panel.Date: 1991