Controversy : politics of technical decisions / Dorothy Nelkin, editor.

Newbury Park, CA : Sage, [1992], ©1992.

xxv, 258 pages ; 23 cm.

3rd ed.

Science, technology, and political conflict : analyzing the issues / Dorothy Nelkin -- Moral sentiments versus the instrumental values of science. The fetal research dispute / Steven Maynard-Moody -- The animal rights controversy / Dorothy Nelkin, James M. Jasper -- The surrogacy controversy : making and remaking the family / Nadine Taub -- Political priorities versus environmental values. Holes in the ozone layer : a global environmental controversy / Michael S. Brown, Katherine A. Lyon -- The wreck of the Exxon Valdez / Lee Clarke -- Three nuclear energy controversies / James M. Jasper -- Economic interests versus controlling health risks. The diet-cancer debate / Stephen Hilgartner -- Setting occupational health standards : the vinyl chloride case / Michael S. Brown -- Genetic testing in the workplace : competing paradigms of technological advance / Elaine Draper -- Individual rights versus social goals. The creation-evolution controversy / Dorothy Nelkin

(cont.) Testing for AIDS : the dilemmas of controlling disease / Sally Guttmacher -- Regulating recombinant DNA research and its applications / Sheldon Krimsky.

Includes bibliographical references and index