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Tables of Contents for Media, Risk and Science
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Series Editor's Foreword
vii
Acknowledgements
viii
Introduction: Media, Risk and Science
1
11
Science and the public
3
5
Risky science, uncertain media
8
4
Science Fictions
12
27
Science in science fiction
14
6
Amazing tales of super-science
20
6
Alien worlds
26
6
The final frontier
32
7
Science in Popular Culture
39
30
The truth is out there
40
5
Popular images of scientists
45
7
Public understandings of science
52
9
Science on display
61
8
Science Journalism
69
28
Science and society
70
5
Making science newsworthy
75
7
Scientists as sources
82
6
Communicating risk
88
9
Media, Risk and the Environment
97
24
Living in the risk society
99
4
Mapping `the environment'
103
4
Nuclear nightmares
107
6
Covering environmental issues
113
8
Bodies at Risk: News Coverage of Aids
121
25
An im/moral panic
123
4
Reporting the plague
127
4
Pride and prejudice
131
8
HIV/AIDS in a new century
139
7
Food Scares: Mad Cows and GM Foods
146
31
Food scares in the media
148
4
Mad cows, angry citizens
152
13
The controversy over genetically modified foods
165
9
Lessons learned?
174
3
Figures of the Human: Robots, Androids, Cyborgs and Clones
177
29
Frankenstein's monster
178
4
Of flesh and steel
182
6
Test-tube babies, designer children
188
8
Human clones
196
10
Glossary
206
5
References
211
16
Index
227