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Science and public reason / / Sheila Jasanoff



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Autore: Jasanoff Sheila Visualizza persona
Titolo: Science and public reason / / Sheila Jasanoff Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2012
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (305 p.)
Disciplina: 303.48/3
Soggetto topico: Science - Social aspects
Technology - Social aspects
Science and state
Technology and state
Public interest
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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"--
Titolo autorizzato: Science and public reason  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-52137-7
9786613833822
0-203-11382-9
1-136-28841-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910461793203321
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Serie: The Earthscan Science in Society Series