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Overview"This book represents emerging alternative perspectives to the ""constructivist"" orthodoxy that currently dominates the field of science and technology studies. Various contributions from distinguished Americans and Europeans in the field, provide arguments and evidence that it is not enough simply to say that science is ""socially situated."" Controversial Science focuses on important political, ethical, and broadly normative considerations that have yet to be given their due, but which point to a more realistic and critical perspective on science policy." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Thomas Brante , Steve Fuller , William LynchPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.472kg ISBN: 9780791414743ISBN 10: 0791414744 Pages: 326 Publication Date: 01 July 1993 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Preface Introduction PART I. CONTENTS: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES AND THEORETICAL PROPOSALS 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 Segerstrale 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 PART II. CONTENTIONS: EMPIRICAL STUDIES OF CONTROVERSIES Reasons for Studying Scientific and Science-Based Controversies Thomas Brante Comparing ""Tool Controveries"": Science, Contexts, Institutional Power, and the Development of Medical Controversies Sune Sunesson 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 Contributors Index"Reviews"""I think that the whole notion of 'controversy' is a good handle to start with for a critical assessment of the field. Controversy is now seen as not only normal but also a way of framing a research site for looking at the field of scientific endeavor. The editors have also brought together a group of very well-known scholars. ""Until 1970 most studies of science were hagiographic, paeans to science. We generally not only accorded scientists exceptionally high status, but took their point of view as correct and appropriate. But today we've had second thoughts about positivism and scientists as truth-tellers, and view them as imbedded in a cultural matrix, like everyone else. It is not a new viewpoint, but is the prevailing one in the field today, a highly critical one."" - Gerald Markle, Western Michigan University" I think that the whole notion of 'controversy' is a good handle to start with for a critical assessment of the field. Controversy is now seen as not only normal but also a way of framing a research site for looking at the field of scientific endeavor. The editors have also brought together a group of very well-known scholars. Until 1970 most studies of science were hagiographic, paeans to science. We generally not only accorded scientists exceptionally high status, but took their point of view as correct and appropriate. But today we've had second thoughts about positivism and scientists as truth-tellers, and view them as imbedded in a cultural matrix, like everyone else. It is not a new viewpoint, but is the prevailing one in the field today, a highly critical one. - Gerald Markle, Western Michigan University Author InformationThomas Brante is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Steve Fuller is Associate Professor at the Center for Study of Science in Society at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and he is the author of Philosophy of Science and Its Discontents and Social Epistemology. William Lynch is Doctoral Fellow in the History of Science and Technology Program at Cornell University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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