Contents
Section I: The Nature of Science
Chapter 1 The Scientific Method Ain’t What it Used to Be, Clyde Freeman Herreid
Chapter 2 Learning About the Nature of Science With Case Studies, Kathy Gallucci
Chapter 3 Can Case Studies be Used to Teach Critical Thinking? Clyde Freeman Herreid
Chapter 4 The “Case” for Critical Thinking, David R. Terry
Section II: Historical Cases
Chapter 5 Childbed Fever: A Nineteenth-Century Mystery, Christa Colyer
Chapter 6 Mystery of the Blue Death: John Snow and Cholera, Susan Bandoni Muench
Chapter 7 Salem’s Secrets: On the Track of the Salem Witch Trials, Susan M. Nava-Whitehead and Joan-Beth Gow
Chapter 8 The Bacterial Theory of Ulcers: A Nobel-Prize-Winning Discovery, Debra Ann Meuler
Section III: Experimental Design
Chapter 9 Lady Tasting Coffee, Jacinth Maynard, Mary Puterbaugh Mulcahy, and Daniel Kermick
Chapter 10 Memory Loss in Mice, Michael S. Hudecki
Chapter 11 Mom Always Liked You Best, Clyde Freeman Herreid
Chapter 12 PCBs in the Last Frontier, Michael Tessmer
Chapter 13 The Great Parking Debate, Jennifer S. Feenstra
Chapter 14 Poison Ivy: A Rash Decision, Rosemary H. Ford
Section IV: The Scientific Method Meets Unusual Claims
Chapter 15 Extrasensory Perception? Sarah G. Stonefoot and Clyde Freeman Herreid
Chapter 16 A Need for Needles: Does Acupuncture Really Work? Sarah G. Stonefoot and Clyde Freeman Herreid
Chapter 17 Love Potion #10: Human Pheromones at Work? Susan Holt
Chapter 18 The “Mozart Effect,” Lisa D. Hager
Chapter 19 Prayer Study: Science or Not? Kathy Gallucci
Chapter 20 The Case of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, Kathrin Stanger-Hall, Jennifer Merriam, and Ruth Ann Greuling
Section V: Science and Society
Chapter 21 Moon to Mars—To Boldly Go … or Not, Erik Zavrel
Chapter 22 And Now What, Ms. Ranger? The Search for the Intelligent Designer, Clyde Freeman Herreid
Chapter 23 The Case of the Tainted Taco Shells, Ann Taylor
Chapter 24 Medicinal Use of Marijuana, Clyde Freeman Herreid
Chapter 25 Amanda’s Absence: Should Vioxx Be Kept Off the Market? Dan Johnson
Chapter 26 Sex and Vaccination, Erik Zavrel and Clyde Freeman Herreid
Section VI: Science and the Media
Chapter 27 Tragic Choices: Autism, Measles, and the MMR Vaccine, Matthew Rowe
Chapter 28 Ah-choo! Climate Change and Allergies, Juanita Constible, Luke Sandro, and Richard E. Lee, Jr.
Chapter 29 Rising Temperatures: The Politics of Information, Christopher Hollister
Chapter 30 Eating PCBs from Lake Ontario, Eric Ribbens
Section VII: Ethics and the Scientific Process
Chapter 31 Mother’s Milk Cures Cancer? Linda L. Tichenor
Chapter 32 Cancer Cure or Conservation, Pauline A. Lizotte and Gretchen E. Knapp
Chapter 33 A Rush to Judgment? Sheryl R. Ginn and Elizabeth J. Meinz
Chapter 34 How a Cancer Trial Ended in Betrayal, Ye Chen-Izu
Chapter 35 Bringing Back Baby Jason: To Clone or Not to Clone, Jennifer Hayes-Klosteridis
Chapter 36 Selecting the Perfect Baby: The Ethics of Embryo Design, Julia Omarzu
Chapter 37 Studying Racial Bias: Too Hot to Handle? Jane Marantz Connor
Chapter 38 Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Project, Ann W. Fourtner, Charles R. Fourtner, and Clyde Freeman Herreid
Appendix: Evaluating Student Case Work
List of Contributors
Bibliography
Index