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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461793203321

Autore

Jasanoff Sheila

Titolo

Science and public reason / / Sheila Jasanoff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-283-52137-7

9786613833822

0-203-11382-9

1-136-28841-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Collana

The earthscan science in society series

Disciplina

303.48/3

Soggetti

Science - Social aspects

Technology - Social aspects

Science and state

Technology and state

Public interest

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface by David Winickoff; Acknowledgements; Credits; 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 science10 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; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"This collection of essays explores how democratic governments



construct public reason--that is, the forms of evidence and argument used in making state decisions accountable to citizens. The objective is to investigate what societies do in practice when they claim to be reasoning in the public interest. Methodologically, the book is grounded in the field of science and technology studies (STS). It uses in-depth qualitative studies of legal and political practices to shed light on the cultural construction of public reason and the reasoning political subject"--