Origins of the organic agriculture debate /
Origins of the Organic Agriculture Debate takes an historical look at two contrasting streams of ideas. The first view comprises the flow of ideas in chemistry and biology that have created the conditions for modern medicine, modern food production and the biotechnological revolution. The second vie...
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| Language: | English |
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Ames, Iowa :
Iowa State Press,
?2004.
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| Online Access: | Full text (Wentworth users only) |
Table of Contents:
- Origins of The Organic Agriculture Debate; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. Science, Technology, and the Critics of Modernity; 2. Science, Integrated Inquiry, and Verification; 3. Reductionism: Sin, Salvation, or Neither?; 4. On the Trail of DNA: Genes and Heredity; 5. Vitalism and Homeopathy; 6. Disenchantment and the Cost of Rejected Knowledge; 7. Rejected Knowledge, Nature, and the Occult; 8. Vitalism, the Organic, and the Precautionary Principle; 9. Feeding Six Billion People; 10. Romantics and Reactionaries; 11. Risk, Representation, and Change.
- Epilogue: Science, Technology, and HumanityReferences; Index.