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Molecular Biology and Clinical Medicine in the Age of Politicization

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Author:   Toby Bolsen (Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University, USA) ,  Risa Palm (Professor of Urban Studies and past-Provost at Georgia State University, USA)
Publisher:   Elsevier Science & Technology
Imprint:   Academic Press Inc
Weight:   0.570kg
ISBN:  

9780323994392

ISBN 10:   0323994393
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   16 February 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Preface Toby Bolsen and Risa Palm 1. Science, politics and institutional design in regulation Thomas O. McGarity and Wendy E. Wagner 2. Beyond the sheltering academic silo: Norms for scientists' participation in policy Karen L. Akerlof 3. Effects of politicization on the practice of science Hannah Schmid-Petri, Nils Bienzeisler and Arista Beseler 4. Politics v. science: How president trump’s war on science impacted public health and environmental regulation Romany M. Webb and Lauren Kurtz 5. Politicization and COVID-19 vaccine resistance in the United States Toby Bolsen and Risa Palm 6. Effects of politicized media coverage: Experimental evidence from the HPV vaccine and COVID-19 Erika Franklin Fowler, Rebekah H. Nagler, Darshana Banka and Sarah E. Gollust 7. Vax attacks: How conspiracy theory belief undermines vaccine support Christina E. Farhart, Ella Douglas-Durham, Krissy Lunz Trujillo and Joseph A. Vitriol 8. Communicating CRISPR: Challenges and opportunities in engaging the public Elizabeth S. Baik, Abraham Koshy and Bruce W. Hardy 9. Moral conviction: A challenge in the age of science politicization Robin Bayes 10. Strategic Science communication in the age of politicization Todd P. Newman

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Toby Bolsen is a Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University. His research focuses on the study of political communication, preference formation, political behavior, and U.S. energy and climate policy. Dr. Bolsen holds a B.A. in Social Science from Eastern Illinois University, an M.A. in Political Science from Southern Illinois University, and a PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University. Bolsen has received the Outstanding Faculty Achievement Award from Georgia State University and was named a Kavli Fellow at the Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium in Ambon, Indonesia. Professor Bolsen currently serves on the Editorial Board for Science Communication and is an Associate Principal Investigator for Time Sharing Experiments in the Social Sciences (TESS). Risa Palm is a Professor of Urban Studies and past-Provost at Georgia State University. She previously held concurrent faculty and administrative positions as dean or provost at the State University of New York, Louisiana State University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Oregon and University of Colorado, Boulder, as well as a faculty position at the University of California at Berkeley. She is the author or co-author of 15 books or monographs and more than 40 peer-reviewed research papers, primarily on the topics of response to earthquake hazards and climate change. She is past-President and a Fellow of the American Association of Geographers and has served on the governing boards of the American Geographical Society, the Consortium of Social Science Associations, the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities, and the Association of Chief Academic Officers, as well as advisory committees for National Science Foundation programs and the National Academy of Sciences.

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