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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783461703321

Titolo

States of knowledge : the co-production of science and social order / / edited by Sheila Jasanoff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-134-32833-8

0-415-33361-X

9786610025244

1-134-32834-6

1-280-02524-7

0-203-41384-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 p. ) : 1 line drawing

Collana

International library of sociology

Altri autori (Persone)

JasanoffSheila

Disciplina

303.48/3

Soggetti

Science - Social aspects

Science and state

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-306) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Notes on Contributors. Acknowledgements 1. The Idiom of Co-production 2. Ordering Knowledge, Ordering Society 3. Climate Science and the Making of a Global Political Order 4. Co-producing CITES and the African Elephant 5. Knowledge and Political Order in the European Environment Agency 6. Plants, Power and Development: Founding the Imperial Department of Agriculture for the West Indies, 1880-1914 7. Mapping Systems and Moral Order: Constituting Property in Genome Laboratories 8. Patients and Scientists in French Muscular Dystrophy Research 9. Circumscribing Expertise: Membership Categories in Courtroom Testimony 10. The Science of Merit and the Merit of Science: Mental Order and Social Order in Early Twentieth-Century France and America 11. Mysteries of State, Mysteries of Nature: Authority, Knowledge and Expertise in the Seventeenth Century 12. Reconstructing Sociotechnical Order: Vannevar Bush and US Science Policy 13. Science and the Political Imagination in Contemporary Democracies 14. Afterword. References. Index