Science, Technology, and Society

"Each article is accessible to the general reader and is accompanied by a bibliography of books, articles, and reports. The topical outline of articles will be useful to students looking for a research topic, and the index is well done.... Users wanting background information on current issues will find this resource a good place to start. Recommended for public libraries as well as undergraduate collections."--Library Journal "Overall, this is an excellent source for readers needing an overview of societal issues raised by science, technology, and medicine.... Recommended."--Choice "A wonderful, interdisciplinary collection....User-friendly....a remarkable and precious reference book that is essential for any academic library."--Yves Laberge, International Journal of Science Education "Issues are covered in a much broader manner than in many existing works on the subject.... This is an excellent resource."--Choice "Overall, this is an excellent source for readers needing an overview of societal issues raised by science, technology, and medicine.... Recommended."--Choice "The introduction suggests that readers would include high-school students as well as professional researchers; the readership level of the entries appears to very widely from very elementary to expert.... The Oxford title is recommended for those libraries with a specific need in this area and for general undergraduate reference collections."--Booklist "Each article is accessible to the general readerr and is accompanied by a bibliography of books, articles, and reports. The topical outline of articles will be useful to students looking for a research topic, and the index is well done.... Users wanting background information on current issues will find this resource a good place to start. Recommended for public libraries as well as undergraduate collections."--Library Journal "A wonderful, interdisciplinary collection....The three introduction pieces are thought-provoking, and should not be overlooked becasue they provide an excellent mapping of how each specific domain is understood and articulated here....In many points, the encyclopedia is user-friendly....a remarkable and precious reference book that is essential for any academic library. Moreover, I could hardly find a feeble text or any kind of jargon anywhere in the book."--Yves Laberge, International Journal of Science Education