Contents -- Introduction -- 1 - The Scientific Method Ain't What It Used to Be -- 2 - Learning About the Nature of Science With Case Studies -- 3 - Can Case Studies Be Used to Teach Critical Thinking? -- 4 - Critical Thinking -- Section II: Historical Cases -- 5 - Childbed Fever: A 19th-Century Mystery -- 6 - Mystery of the Blue Death: John Snow and Cholera -- 7 - Salem's Secrets: On the Track of the Salem Witch Trials -- 8 - The Bacterial Theory of Ulcers: A Nobel-Prize-Winning Discovery -- Section III: Experimental Design -- 9 - Lady Tasting Coffee -- 10 - Memory Loss in Mice -- 11 - Mom Always Liked You Best -- 12 - PCBs in the Last Frontier -- 13 - The Great Parking Debate -- 14 - Poison Ivy: A Rash Decision -- Section IV: The Scientific Method Meets Unusual Claims -- 15 - Extrasensory Perception? -- 16 - A Need for Needles:Does Acupuncture ReallyWork? -- 17 - Love Potion #10: HumanPheromones at Work? -- 18 - The "Mozart Effect" -- 19 - Prayer Study: Science orNot? -- 20 - The Case of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker -- Section V: Science and Society -- 21 - Moon to Mars: To BoldlyGo … or Not -- 22 - And Now What, Ms. Ranger? The Search for the Intelligent Designer -- 23 - The Case of the Tainted Taco Shells -- 24 - Medicinal Use of Marijuana -- 25 - Amanda's Absence: Should Vioxx Be Kept Off the Market? -- 26 - Sex and Vaccination -- Section VI: Science and the Media -- 27 - Tragic Choices: Autism, Measles, and the MMR Vaccine -- 28 - Ah-choo! Climate Change and Allergies -- 29 - Rising Temperatures: The Politics of Information -- 30 - Eating PCBs From Lake Ontario -- Section VII: Ethics and the Scientific Process -- 31 - Mother's Milk Cures Cancer? -- 32 - Cancer Cure or Conservation -- 33 - A Rush to Judgment? -- 34 - How a Cancer Trial Ended in Betrayal -- 35 - Bringing Back Baby Jason: To Clone or Not to Clone.

36 - Selecting the Perfect Baby: The Ethics of "Embryo Design" -- 37 - Studying Racial Bias: Too Hot to Handle? -- 38 - Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Project -- List of Contributors -- Selected Bibliography onCase Study Teaching inScience -- Appendix A: CaseSummary and Overview -- Appendix B: AlignmentWith National ScienceEducation Standards forScience Content, Grades9-12 -- Appendix C:Evaluating StudentCasework -- Index.