The handbook of science and technology studies / Edward J. Hackett ... [et al.], editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hackett, Edward J., 1951-

Society for Social Studies of Science.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science.

Technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1080 p.)

Edition:

3rd ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press : Published in cooperation with the Society for the Social Studies of Science, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A comprehensive and authoritative overview of current research, major theoretical perspectives, and new research directions in the study of science, technology, and society.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I Ideas and Perspectives; 1 Science and Technology Studies and an Engaged Program; 2 The Social Study of Science before Kuhn; 3 Political Theory in Science and Technology Studies; 4 A Textbook Case Revisited-Knowledge as a Mode of Existence; 5 The Social Worlds Framework: A Theory/Methods Package; 6 Feminist STS and the Sciences of the Artificial; 7 Technological Determinism Is Dead; Long Live Technological Determinism; 8 Pramoedya's Chickens: Postcolonial Studies of Technoscience; II Practices, People, and Places

9 Argumentation in Science: The Cross-Fertilization of Argumentation Theory and Science Studies10 STS and Social Epistemology of Science; 11 Cognitive Studies of Science and Technology; 12 Give Me a Laboratory and I Will Raise a Discipline: The Past, Present, and Future Politics of Laboratory Studies in STS; 13 Social Studies of Scientific Imaging and Visualization; 14 Messy Shapes of Knowledge-STS Explores Informatization, New Media, and Academic Work; 15 Sites of Scientific Practice: The Enduring Importance of Place; 16 Scientific Training and the Creation of Scientific Knowledge

17 The Coming Gender Revolution in ScienceIII Politics and Publics; 18 Science and the Modern World; 19 Science and Public Participation; 20 Science, Technology, and Social Movements; 21 Patient Groups and Health Movements; 22 User-Technology Relationships: Some Recent Developments; 23 STS and Ethics: Implications for Engineering Ethics; 24 STS Perspectives on Scientific Governance; 25 Expertise: From Attribute to Attribution and Back Again?; IV Institutions and Economics; 26 The Commercialization of Science and the Response of STS

27 Organizational Contexts of Science: Boundaries and Relationships between University and Industry28 Science, Technology, and the Military: Priorities, Preoccupations, and Possibilities; 29 The Right Patients for the Drug: Pharmaceutical Circuitsand the Codification of Illness; 30 Making Order: Law and Science in Action; 31 Knowledge and Development; V Emergent Technosciences; 32 Genomics, STS, and the Making of Sociotechnical Futures; 33 Emerging Medical Technologies; 34 Biomedical Technologies, Cultural Horizons, and Contested Boundaries; 35 STS and Social Studies of Finance

36 Nature and the Environment in Science and Technology Studies37 Bridging STS and Communication Studies: Scholarship on Media and Information Technologies; 38 Anticipatory Governance of Nanotechnology: Foresight, Engagement, and Integration; Contributors; Name Index; Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612099205

9781282099203

1282099205

9780262274685

026227468X

9781435605046

1435605047

OCLC:

177219276