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The Edge of Life: Controversies and Challenges in Human Health

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The gap between rapid scientific progress and public understanding faces unprecedented challenges. Leading 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.... Read More
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The Edge of Life: Controversies and Challenges in Human Health

In a world saturated with information, how can we know what to trust when it comes to the science that affects our everyday lives?

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The gap between rapid scientific progress and public understanding faces unprecedented challenges. Leading 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.

The Edge of Life: Controversies and Challenges in Human Health is also a heartfelt plea to place robust and impartial science at the centre of our thinking for the future.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780908321339

Publisher: Bridget Williams Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 20 August 2015

Country: New Zealand

Imprint: Bridget Williams Books

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 110.0mm

Height: 180.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 120

About the Author

Mike Berridge is a Distinguished Research Fellow and Senior Scientist at the Malaghan Institute of Medical Research, Wellington, New Zealand.

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