Why dissent matters : because some people see things the rest of us miss /

"Frances Kelsey was a quiet Canadian doctor and scientist who stood up to a huge pharmaceutical company wanting to market a new drug--Thalidomide--and prevented an American tragedy. The nature writer Rachel Carson identified an emerging environmental disaster and pulled the fire alarm. Dissenti...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kaplan, William, 1957- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017.
Temas:
Dissenters > Canada.
Dissenters > United States.
Social change > Canada.
Social change > United States.
Dissidents > Canada.
Dissidents > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Dissenters
Social change
Canada
United States
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The tenth man
  • There really is nothing new under the sun
  • A woman of fortitude and determination : Frances Oldham Kelsey
  • Rachel was right : Rachel Louise Carson
  • Dissenting juries and judges
  • Sentenced to death
  • Occupy Wall Street
  • and this, that, and the other place
  • How not to make public policy
  • The clock is ticking and it's 1973 all over again.

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