Public Understanding of Science -- Table of Contents (May 2009, 18 [3])

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Contents: May 2009, Volume 18, No. 3 [Index by Author]
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Dominique Brossard: Media, scientific journals and science communication: examining the construction of scientific controversies
Public Understanding of Science 2009 18: 258-274. [Abstract] [PDF] [References] [Request Permission]

Murray Goulden: Boundary-work and the human—animal binary: Piltdown man, science and the media
Public Understanding of Science 2009 18: 275-291. [Abstract] [PDF] [References] [Request Permission]

Mary C. Ingram-Waters: Public fiction as knowledge production: the case of the Raëlians' cloning claims
Public Understanding of Science 2009 18: 292-308. [Abstract] [PDF] [References] [Request Permission]

John Lynch: Stem cells and the embryo: biorhetoric and scientism in Congressional debate
Public Understanding of Science 2009 18: 309-324. [Abstract] [PDF] [References] [Request Permission]

Jamie Landau, Christopher R. Groscurth, Lanelle Wright, and Celeste M. Condit: Visualizing nanotechnology: the impact of visual images on lay American audience associations with nanotechnology
Public Understanding of Science 2009 18: 325-337. [Abstract] [PDF] [References] [Request Permission]

Sarah Davies, Ellen McCallie, Elin Simonsson, Jane L. Lehr, and Sally Duensing: Discussing dialogue: perspectives on the value of science dialogue events that do not inform policy
Public Understanding of Science 2009 18: 338-353. [Abstract] [PDF] [References] [Request Permission]

Ulrike Felt, Maximilian Fochler, Annina Müller, and Michael Strassnig: Unruly ethics: on the difficulties of a bottom-up approach to ethics in the field of genomics
Public Understanding of Science 2009 18: 354-371. [Abstract] [PDF] [References] [Request Permission]

Valentina Amorese: Book review: Daniel S. Greenberg, Science for Sale: the Perils, Rewards and Delusion of Campus Capitalism (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2007), 288pp, ISBN: 9780226306254, $25.00 (hbk)
Public Understanding of Science 2009 18: 372-373. [PDF] [Request Permission]

Eric Jensen: Book review: Joan Haran, Jenny Kitzinger, Maureen McNeil, and Kate O'Riordan, Human Cloning in the Media: from Science Fiction to Science Practice (London: Routledge, 2008), 256pp, ISBN 9780415422369, $160.00 (hbk)
Public Understanding of Science 2009 18: 373-374. [PDF] [References] [Request Permission]

David M. Berube: Book review: Daniel Gardner, Risk: The Science and Politics of Fear (London: Virgin Books, 2008), 355pp. ISBN 9781905264155, £17.99 (hbk) [published in the USA as The Science of Fear: Why we Fear the Things we Shouldn't—and put Ourselves in Greater Danger (New York: Dutton, 2008), 352pp. ISBN 9780525950622, $24.95 (hbk)] Simon Briscoe and Hugh Aldersey-Williams, Panicology: What Are You Afraid Of? Two Statisticians Explain What's Worth Worrying About (and What's Not) in the 21st Century (London: Viking Penguin, 2008). 304pp. ISBN 9780670917013. £18.98 (hbk)
Public Understanding of Science 2009 18: 375-376. [PDF] [Request Permission]

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