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Controversial science : from content to contention

Title
Controversial science : from content to contention / edited by Thomas Brante, Steve Fuller, William Lynch.
Publication
Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1993.

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Additional Authors
  • Brante, Thomas, 1947-
  • Fuller, Steve, 1959-
  • Lynch, William, 1965-
Description
xix, 326 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series Statement
SUNY series in science, technology, and society
Uniform Title
SUNY series in science, technology, and society.
Subject
  • Science > Social aspects
  • Science > Philosophy
  • Science and state
  • Science and state
  • Science > Philosophy
  • Science > Social aspects
  • Wissenschaftsphilosophie
  • Wissenschaftssoziologie
  • Wissenschaftstheorie
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Controversen
  • Sociologie
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • The feminist challenge to social studies of science / Julia Loughlin -- Science, sociology of science, and the anarchist tradition / Sal Restivo -- Counteranalysis : toward social and normative restraints on the production and use of scientific and technological knowledge / Frans Birrer -- Bringing the scientist back in : the need for an alternative sociology of scientific knowledge / Ullica Segerstråle -- Biotechnology and ethics / Henk Verhoog -- A strategy for making science studies policy relevant / Steve Fuller -- Science as the continuation of politics by other means / Aant Elzinga -- Close encounters of the third kind : science and the context of relevance / Peter Weingart -- Reasons for studying scientific and science-based controversies / Thomas Brante -- Comparing "tool controversies" : science, contexts, institutional power, and the developmental of medical controversies / Sune Sunesson.
  • Causal stories, scientific information, and the ozone depletion controversy : intrusive scenarios in the policy process / Andrew Weiss -- Value communities in science : the recombinant DNA case / Tibor Szanto -- The image of man in sociobiology / Margarita Jeliazkova -- Cultural bias and regulating risky technologies : the Dutch debate on regulating LPG-related activities / Rob Hoppe and Rob Pranger -- Ethical controversies of science and society : a relation between two spheres of social conflict / Randall Collins.
ISBN
  • 0791414736
  • 9780791414736
  • 0791414744
  • 9780791414743
LCCN
  • 92022543
  • 9780791414743
OCLC
  • ocm26096166
  • 26096166
  • SCSB-1989881
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library