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Harry Rothman specialises in science and technology studies, is an honorary fellow of the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research at the Alliance Business School, University of Manchester.
Personal and Education
[edit]Born in Altrincham Cheshire 19th July 1938 to Bernard Rothman, the leader of the Kinder Mass Trespass, and Lilian Crabtree. He attended Altrincham Grammar School for Boys. He obtained a BSc (First class honours) at Kings College, Newcastle, University of Durham in 1960. He has a PhD in Technology Policy from Aston University. He is also a trained neurofeedback practitioner. In 1962 he married the painter Anne Berg.
Career and research
[edit]Held lecturing and professorial posts at the University of Manchester, Aston University, University of the West of England and University of Nottingham. He has also been a visiting researcher and professor at institutions in France, Fiji, India, Brazil and China. He has authored and edited numerous books and scholarly articles on the subjects of: environmental impacts of technology , biotechnology , and scientometrics.
His best known work is “Murderous Providence: A Study of Pollution in Industrial Societies” (1972)[1], which according to the economist Ernest Mandel was the “first to approach the entire environmental problem from a Marxist point of view".
Other publications include:
Industrial Uses of Biomass Energy: The example of Brazil, (Co-edited with F. Rosill-Calle & S.V. Bajay) Taylor & Francis, London, 2000[2]
Splicing Life? The New Genetics and Society[3]
Genetic Imaginations - Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in Human Genome Research[4]
The Biotechnological Challenge: Implications for the Third World[5]
The alcohol economy : fuel ethanol and the Brazilian experience[6]
He also founded and edited the research journals Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, and, New Genetics and Society which publish research on the evaluation of socio-economic and environmental impacts of technology. In 2004 Harry Rothman was elected an academician and fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He has also been a fellow of The Royal Entomological Society, The Zoological Society, The Royal Society of Arts, and the World Future Society.
References
[edit]- ^ Rothman, Harry (1972). Murderous Providence: A Study of Pollution in Industrial Societies. R. Hart-Davis. p. 372. ISBN 9780246105158.
- ^ Harry, Rothman (2000). Industrial Uses of BiomassEnergy: The Example of Brazil. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9780429094910.
- ^ Rothman, Harry (2017). Splicing Life? The New Genetics and Society. Ashgate Aldershot. p. 158. ISBN 9781351898485.
- ^ Rothman, Harry (2017). Genetic Imaginations Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in Human Genome Research. Taylor & Francis. p. 150. ISBN 9781351934312.
- ^ Rothman, Harry (1986). The Biotechnological Challenge: Implications for the Third World. Cambridge University Press. p. 181. ISBN 0 521 30775 9.
- ^ Rothman, Harry (1983). The alcohol economy : fuel ethanol and the Brazilian experience. Frances Pinter Publisher Ltd. p. 188. ISBN 086187255X.