Jonathan B. Imber

Searching for Science Policy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The findings of scientific research often provide an important baseline to the formation of public policy

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 359g
• ISBN-13: 9780765801630
• ISBN-10: 0765801639
• Artikelnr.: 21393704

Autorenporträt

Imber, Jonathan B.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: What are the Uses and Misuses of Science? Part 1: Policy Uses
and Misuses of Science 1. How to Make Millions: Promoting Bad Statistics 2.
Exposing Junk Science.com: The Case of the MIT "Study" on the Status of
Women 3. American Distortion of Dutch Drug Statistics 4. Science in A Civil
Action Part 2: Searching for Science Policy 5. The Use and Abuse of Science
in Drug Abuse Control Policy 6. Social Science Findings and the "Family
Wars" 7. Environmental Cancer 8. Judicial Fictions: The Supreme Court's
Quest for Good Science