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David J. Hess presents an overview of the localist movement in the United States, from 'buy local' campaigns to urban agriculture, and its potential for addressing global problems of sustainability and justice.

Sustainable urban development --- Globalization --- Central-local government relations --- Economic History --- Business & Economics --- Globalization. --- Central-local government relations. --- Center-periphery government relations --- Local-central government relations --- Local government-central government relations --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- Environmentally sustainable urban development --- Political science --- Decentralization in government --- Federal government --- International relations --- Anti-globalization movement --- City planning --- Sustainable development --- ENVIRONMENT/Environmental Politics & Policy --- ARCHITECTURE/Urban Design --- Sociology of environment --- Community organization --- United States --- #SBIB:324H74 --- #SBIB:33H072 --- Politieke verandering: sociale bewegingen --- Wereldmarkten --- United States of America

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Growing numbers of cancer patients are exploring diet, food supplements, herbs, and nontoxic immunotherapies like bacterial vaccines as a means of therapy. Yet most cancer research organizations refuse to even evaluate these alternatives. Can Bacteria Cause Cancer? argues convincingly that unless this neglected world of alternative therapies is properly scrutinized, the medical Vietnam of the twentieth century may well affect one in two people by the twenty-first century.David J. Hess investigates one of the great medical mysteries of the twentieth century--the relationship between bacteria and chronic disease. Recently scientists have overturned long-held beliefs by demonstrating that bacterial infections cause many ulcers; they are now reconsidering the role of bacterial infections in other chronic diseases, such as arthritis. Is it possible, Hess asks, that bacteria can contribute to the many other known causes of cancer?To answer this intriguing question, Hess takes us into the world of alternative cancer researchers. Maintaining that their work has been actively suppressed rather than simply dismissed, he examines their claims---that bacterial vaccines have led to some dramatic cases of long-term cancer remission--and the scientific potential of their theories. Economic interests and cultural values, he demonstrates, have influenced the rush toward radiation and chemotherapy and the current cul-de-sac of toxic treatments.More than a medical mystery story, Can Bacteria Cause Cancer? is a dramatic case study of the failure of the war on cancer.

Carcinogenesis --- Cancer --- Bacterial Diseases --- Alternative Medicine --- Medical --- Bacterial diseases --- Alternative medicine

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This issue of Political power and social theory explores the changes in science associated with the rise of neoliberalism since the 1970s. The neoliberalization of science has complicated interactions among states, markets, and civil society, often in ways that challenge major assumptions underlying decades of research. The articles collected here break with older Mertonian sociologies of science and constructivist micro-sociologies of scientific knowledge to examine the meso-level problem of the changing institutional contexts of the scientific field as originally identified by Pierre Bourdieu. Papers presented in Part I extend Bourdieús relational approach to the broader set of interactions among scientific, regulatory, industry, and social movement fields. Part II extends Bourdieu's concern with order and the scientific habitus to the changing patterns of scientific practices under neoliberalism. By reconceptualizing the central problem for the social studies of science as the political sociological problem of field and inter-field dynamics, the collected papers chart an important theoretical agenda for future research in the study of science-society relations.

Comparative government. --- International relations --- Neoliberalism. --- Methodology. --- Neo-liberalism --- Comparative political systems --- Comparative politics --- Government, Comparative --- Political systems, Comparative --- International relations -- Methodology. --- Political science -- Philosophy. --- Political science. --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Sciences - General --- Liberalism --- Political science --- Political Science --- Political science & theory. --- Political ideologies. --- Society & social sciences. --- Science and state --- Science --- Pesticides. --- Climatology. --- Nutrition. --- Hydraulic fracturing. --- General. --- Social aspects. --- Fracking (Engineering) --- Fracturing, Hydraulic --- Hydrofracking --- Hydraulic engineering --- Rock mechanics --- Alimentation --- Food --- Nutrition --- Health --- Physiology --- Diet --- Dietetics --- Digestion --- Food habits --- Malnutrition --- Climate --- Climate science --- Climate sciences --- Science of climate --- Atmospheric science --- Economic poisons --- Agricultural chemicals --- Pests --- Poisons --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Science and society --- Sociology of science --- Science policy --- State and science --- Health aspects --- Control --- Equipment and supplies --- Government policy