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Author Jasanoff, Professor Sheila

Title Handbook of Science and Technology Studies
Published Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (849 pages)
Contents Cover; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Part I -- Overview; Chapter 1 -- Reinventing the Wheel; Part II -- Theory and Methods; Chapter 2 -- Four Models for the Dynamics of Science; Chapter 3 -- Coming of Age in STS: Some Methodological Musings; Chapter 4 -- The Origin, History, and Politics of the Subject Called ""Gender and Science"": A First Person Account; Chapter 5 -- The Theory Landscape in Science Studies: Sociological Traditions; Part III -- Scientific and Technical Cultures; Chapter 6 -- Science and Other Indigenous Knowledge Systems
Chapter 7 -- Laboratory Studies: The Cultural Approach to the Study of ScienceChapter 8 -- Engineering Studies; Chapter 9 -- Feminist Theories of Technology; Chapter 10 -- Women and Scientific Careers; Part IV -- Constructing Technology; Chapter 11 -- Sociohistorical Technology Studies; Chapter 12 -- From ""Impact"" to Social Process: Computers in Society and Culture; Chapter 13 -- Science Studies and Machine Intelligence; Chapter 14 -- The Human Genome Project; Part V -- Communicating Science and Technology; Chapter 15 -- Discourse, Rhetoric, Reflexivity: Seven Days in the Library
Chapter 16 -- Science and the MediaChapter 17 -- Public Understanding of Science; Part VI -- Science, Technology, and Controversy; Chapter 18 -- Boundaries of Science; Chapter 19 -- Science Controversies: The Dynamics of Public Disputes in the United States; Chapter 20 -- The Environmental Challenge to Science Studies; Chapter 21 -- Science as Intellectual Property; Chapter 22 -- Scientific Knowledge, Controversy, and Public Decision Making; Part VII -- Science, Technology, and the State; Chapter 23 -- Science, Government, and the Politics of Knowledge
Chapter 24 -- Politics by the Same Means: Government and Science in the United StatesChapter 25 -- Changing Policy Agendas in Science and Technology; Chapter 26 -- Science, Technology, and the Military: Relations in Transition; Chapter 27 -- Science and Technology in Less Developed Countries; Chapter 28 -- Globalizing the World: Science and Technology in International Relations; References; Further Reading; Index; About the Authors
Summary For the most current, comprehensive resource in this rapidly evolving field, look no further than the Revised Edition of the Handbook of Science and Technology Studies. This masterful volume is the first resource in more than 15 years to define, summarize, and synthesize this complex multidisciplinary, international field. Tightly edited with contributions by an internationally recognized team of leading scholars, this volume addresses the crucial contemporary issues-both traditional and nonconventional-social studies, political studies, and humanistic studies in this changing field. Containi
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Subject Science.
Technology.
Science
Technology
sciences (philosophy)
Science.
Technology.
Form Electronic book
Author Markle, Dr. Gerald E. E
Peterson, James C. C
Pinch, Dr. Trevor J
ISBN 9781452213637
1452213631