Science Education
Perspectives in Ethics, Policy, and Science, offers an engaging ecological perspective on bioethical issues relevant to ethicists, policy-makers, and scientists. It offers three sections organized around human relationships to the environment, non-human animals, and biotechnologies. Each section presents clear and authoritative perspectives that develop each theme as central to bioethics. These perspectives can be used to lead discussion in classroom use either for students studying bioethics or for researchers interested in the ethical implications of specific topics. Questions for such discussion will follow each chapter that will help readers think critically about the essay and also the bioethical framework more generally.
Unlike traditional case study approaches or philosophical treatises, this book draws together a collection of the finest thinking on each respective theme while foregrounding the interconnection between those ethical, political, and scientific themes. Unlike other edited volumes, this collection of essays, originally given as public lectures, offers engaging and readable monologues on key issues by the very best scholars in their respective areas.
The editors’ introduction frames the complex history of bioethics and present an ecological consideration of the discipline as related to not only human well-being but also to the relations between humans, nonhuman animals, the environment, and biotechnologies. The first section starts from our best understanding of nonhuman animal pain and then moves to a discussion of nonhuman animal understanding. The second section sets the stage, first considering environmental ethics broadly and then narrowing to human impact on the climate and finally bringing technology and environment together concerning nanotechnology. The final section begins with discussion of a human-centered technology, moves to a biotechnology with broader potential environmental impact, and ends with the impact of biotechnologies on life itself. These three parts each tie together ethics, policy, and science as central to bioethics.
This coffee-table book uses color photographs and captions to tell the story of the first one hundred years of the Purdue University School of Chemical Engineering. Formed four years after a chemical engineering curriculum was established at the University, the School grew rapidly in size and reputation. It was a leader in encouraging women and minority students to become engineers, and it produced many substantial scientific contributions. The School continues to provide expertise and solutions to the “grand challenge” problems that the world faces today, whether in energy, nanotechnology, biotechnology, health care, or advanced materials. Among its thirty faculty members, five are members of the National Academy of Engineering.
Throughout history, women have struggled to change the workplace, change government, change society. So what’s next? It’s time for women to change the world! Whether on the job, in politics, or in their community, there has never been a better time for women to make a difference in the world, contends author, mentor, and corporate pioneer Susan Bulkeley Butler in Women Count: A Guide to Changing the World.
Through her experience as the first female partner of a major consulting firm and founder of the Susan Bulkeley Butler Institute for the Development of Women Leaders, Butler’s unique insights have changed the lives of countless women. In Women Count, she shows readers how to change the world through a series of inspiring case studies that chronicle how she and other pioneering women in a range of fields have done so in years past. Women represent half of the country’s population, half of the country’s college graduates, and around 50 percent of the country’s workforce. Butler envisions a day when they will also make up their fair share of elected and appointed positions, including in corporate boardrooms.
Amid financial meltdowns, wars, and societal struggles, never before has the world so greatly needed the unique abilities of women to lead the way. But as history has shown, to make change, women must step into their power and become “women who count,” Butler contends. Then and only then, she argues, can women truly change the world.