Umfang:
1 online resource (xvi, 286 pages)
ISBN:
9780203113820
,
9781136288364
,
9781136288401
,
9781136288418
Serie:
The Earthscan science in society series
Inhalt:
1. Reason in practice -- 2. Product, process, or programme : three cultures and the regulation of biotechnology -- 3. In the democracies of DNA : ontological uncertainty and political order in three states -- 4. Restoring reason : causal narratives and political culture -- 5. Image and imagination : the formation of global environmental consciousness -- 6. Contested boundaries in policy-relevant science -- 7. The songlines of risk -- 8. Judgment under siege : the three-body problem of expert legitimacy -- 9. Technologies of humility : citizen participation in governing science -- 10. What judges should know about the sociology of science -- 11. Expert games in silicone gel breast implant litigation -- 12. The eye of everyman : witnessing DNA in the Simpson trial -- 13. In a constitutional moment : science and social order at the millennium -- 14. Afterword.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780415524865
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780415624688
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780415524865
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.4324/9780203113820
