Amidst unseasonal frosts, violent thunderstorms and a general atmosphere of horror, Mary Shelley began Frankenstein a work of science fiction that continues to shape attitudes to emerging science, technology and environmental futures.
As national medical director I have learned that the NHS will always need to change to match emerging science and shifting disease profiles, and to meet increasing demand within a set budget.
Does this amount to a shift in how our societies order themselves, at least with respect to newly emerging science and technology, which is similar to the emergence of responsibility language and practices in the early 19th century?
Rather than focusing on simply educating members of the public, for example, Nisbet and Scheufele have argued that scientists need to work with communication experts to frame emerging science in ways that resonate with citizens' existing worldviews.
By formulating and implementing a methodology to evaluate intervention integrity in a complex behaviour change programme, we have made a contribution both to the emerging science of fidelity assessment and to the robust evaluation of these increasingly prevalent interventions.
It is the very accumulation of these images and rituals that creates new religions and systems that continue to draw on lengthening histories, mounting philosophies, and emerging "sciences". Thanks to the internet, secret knowledge is now available to everyone as long as you know where to look.
More recent thinking about change, disturbance, uncertainty, and adaptability is fundamental to the emerging science of resilience, the capacity of systems to reorganize and recover from change and disturbance without changing to other states – in other words, systems that are "safe to fail".
Modern clinical practice has incorporated DNA analysis to illuminate the causes of disease, robotics to facilitate operations in the brain and computers to refine M.R.I. images, but we have paid scant attention to the emerging science of cognitive psychology, which could help us explore how we make decisions.
In a written statement, the E.P.A. said that it applied large safety buffers in regulating atrazine and continued to monitor emerging science.
Our friend and mentor Delphine Parrott, who has died aged 87, was a pioneering scientist who made seminal contributions to the emerging science of immunology.
