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120 pages.
Contents: Making sense of science -- Life, complexity and human defences -- Partners for life -- Cancer: complexity, controversy and new dimensions -- What's in our water? -- Into the future.
Summary: The gap between rapid scientific progress and public understanding is facing unprecedented challenges. Research scientist Mike Berridge explores this troubled ground from a rare vantage point. His descriptions of stunning new advances in human health are offset by hard questions about society's ability to keep pace. This exploration brings us into contact with hotly contested public health issues, such as cancer treatment, sugar consumption and water fluoridation. It is also a heartfelt plea to place robust and impartial science at the heart of our thinking for the future. (Publisher's website)
BWB texts.