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Controversial science : from content to contention

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

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Additional authors
  1. Brante, Thomas, 1947-
  2. Fuller, Steve, 1959-
  3. Lynch, William, 1965-
Description
  1. xix, 326 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series statement
  1. SUNY series in science, technology, and society
Uniform title
  1. SUNY series in science, technology, and society.
Subject
  1. Science > Social aspects
  2. Science > Philosophy
  3. Science and state
  4. Science and state
  5. Science > Philosophy
  6. Science > Social aspects
  7. Wissenschaftsphilosophie
  8. Wissenschaftssoziologie
  9. Wissenschaftstheorie
  10. Aufsatzsammlung
  11. Controversen
  12. Sociologie
Contents
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.