| Description |
xv, 820 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Reinventing the Wheel / David Edge -- 2. Four Models for the Dynamics of Science / Michel Callon -- 3. Coming of Age in STS: Some Methodological Musings / Gary Bowden -- 4. The Origin, History, and Politics of the Subject Called "Gender and Science": A First Person Account / Evelyn Fox Keller -- 5. The Theory Landscape in Science Studies: Sociological Traditions / Sal Restivo -- 6. Science and Other Indigenous Knowledge Systems / Helen Watson-Verran and David Turnbull -- 7. Laboratory Studies: The Cultural Approach to the Study of Science / Karin Knorr Cetina -- 8. Engineering Studies / Gary Lee Downey and Juan C. Lucena -- 9. Feminist Theories of Technology / Judy Wajcman -- 10. Women and Scientific Careers / Mary Frank Fox -- 11. Sociohistorical Technology Studies / Wiebe E. Bijker -- 12. From "Impact" to Social Process: Computers in Society and Culture / Paul N. Edwards -- 13. Science Studies and Machine Intelligence / H. M. Collins |
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14. The Human Genome Project / Stephen Hilgartner -- 15. Discourse, Rhetoric, Reflexivity: Seven Days in the Library / Malcolm Ashmore, Greg Myers and Jonathan Potter -- 16. Science and the Media / Bruce V. Lewenstein -- 17. Public Understanding of Science / Brian Wynne -- 18. Boundaries of Science / Thomas F. Gieryn -- 19. Science Controversies: The Dynamics of Public Disputes in the United States / Dorothy Nelkin -- 20. The Environmental Challenge to Science Studies / Steven Yearley -- 21. Science as Intellectual Property / Henry Etzkowitz and Andrew Webster -- 22. Scientific Knowledge, Controversy, and Public Decision Making / Brian Martin and Evelleen Richards -- 23. Science, Government, and the Politics of Knowledge / Susan E. Cozzens and Edward J. Woodhouse -- 24. Politics by the Same Means: Government and Science in the United States / Bruce Bimber and David H. Guston -- 25. Changing Policy Agendas in Science and Technology / Aant Elzinga and Andrew Jamison |
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26. Science, Technology, and the Military: Relations in Transition / Wim A. Smit -- 27. Science and Technology in Less Developed Countries / Wesley Shrum and Yehouda Shenhav -- 28. Globalizing the World: Science and Technology in International Relations / Vittorio Ancarani |
| Notes |
"Published in cooperation with the Society for Social Studies of Science." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 671-773) and index |
| Subject |
Science.
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Technology.
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| Author |
Jasanoff, Sheila.
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Society for Social Studies of Science.
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| ISBN |
0803940211 |
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