SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETY
2018 04-CB-00002-0 978-971-23-8671-8 Core
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Contents
CONTENTS
Preface ........................................................................................................................ v
Chapter I:
General Concepts and Historical Events in Science, Technology, and Society
Intellectual Revolutions That Defined Society ............................. 2 Science, Technology, and Nation-building ..................................21 Science Education in the Philippines ...........................................35 Indigenous Science and Technology in the Philippines .........................................................................42
Lesson 1: Lesson 2: Lesson 3: Lesson 4:
Chapter II: Science, Technology, and
Society and the Human Condition
Human Flourishing ......................................................................50 Technology as a Way of Revealing ...............................................63 The Good Life .............................................................................75 When Technology and Humanity Cross.......................................84
Lesson 1: Lesson 2: Lesson 3: Lesson 4:
Chapter III: Specific Issues in Science, Technology, and Society Lesson 1:
The Information Age ...................................................................104 Biodiversity and the Healthy Society...........................................122 Genetically Modified Organisms: Science, Health, and Politics ......................................................133 The Nano World .........................................................................152 The Aspects of Gene Therapy .....................................................165 Climate Change...........................................................................170
Lesson 2: Lesson 3:
Lesson 4: Lesson 5: Lesson 6:
Index .................................................................................................................. 178
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