These days, science is everywhere. It pervades our whole society. Sometimes it is just a clutter of commonplace frivolities, like new fashion fabrics. Sometimes it miraculously preserves our life, like penicillin. Sometimes, like climate change, it looms over us as a portent of doom: sometimes it promises a way of

From public health luminary Nancy Krieger comes a revolutionary way of addressing health justice and the embodied truths of lived experience. Since the 1700s, fierce debates in medicine and public health have centered around whether sources of ill health can be attributed to either the individual or the surrounding body

In this monograph Janet A. Kourany argues for a philosophy of science more socially engaged and socially responsible than the philosophy of science we have now. The central questions feminist scientists, philosophers, and historians have been raising about science during the last three decades form Kourany's point of departure and

'Bildung' und 'Reise', derzeit hoch im Kurs stehende Massenware als Ausdruck einer globalen Konsumgesellschaft? - Alle sollen gebildet sein, alle sollen gereist sein! 'Bildung' und 'Reise', zwei Bereiche, die schon von Alters her einander bereicherten und ergänzten. Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler der ganzen Welt beschreiben in Beiträ- gen dieses Buches die

Chemical Modelling: Applications and Theory comprises critical literature reviews of molecular modelling, both theoretical and applied. Molecular modelling in this context refers to modelling the structure, properties and reactions of atoms, molecules & materials. Each chapter is compiled by experts in their fields and provides a selective review of recent