The Way and the Word
Science and Medicine in Early China and Greece
1st Edition
Published on 1. October 2008
368 pages
978-0-300-12916-8 (ISBN)
Description
This work focuses on two critical global issues - rapid population growth and a human-induced climate change. John Firor and Judith Jacobsen summarize the current status of these two issues, show how they are related to one another, and prescribe steps that governments, economies, societies and individuals can adopt to stabilize both population and climate. Firor and Jacobsen argue that two revolutions are necessary to achieve a stable population and freedom from human-induced climate change: a social revolution that improves equity, particularly the status of women, and a technical revolution that yields vastly greater efficiency in energy and materials use than we have today. They offer a vision that incorporates these changes, and they urge professionals and activists to work to achieve them, even in the face of great odds.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Aims and Methods
- 2. The Social and Institutional Framework of the Chinese Sciences
- 3. The Social and Institutional Framework of Greek Science
- 4. The Fundamental Issues of Greek Science
- 5. The Fundamental Issues of the Chinese Sciences
- 6. Chinese and Greek Sciences Compared
- Appendix: Evolution of the Chinese Cosmological Synthesis
- Chronology of Historical Events
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index and Glossary
