New Politics of Science

Name: New Politics of Science
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ISBN: 9780226147635

ISBN-10: 0226147630

ISBN-13: 9780226147635

Edition: Reprint

Authors: David Dickson

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How science "gets done" in today's world has profound political repercussions, since scientific knowledge, through its technical applications, has become an important source of both economic and military power. The increasing dependence of scientific research on funding from business and the military has made questions about the access to and control of scientific knowledge a central issue in today's politics of science. In The New Politics of Science, David Dickson points out that "the scientific community has its own internal power structures, its elites, its hierarchies, its ideologies, its sanctioned norms of social behavior, and its dissenting groups. And the more that science, as a…

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List price: $27.50
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 2/26/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Preface, 1988


Acknowledgments


Introduction


Figure 1: Post-World War II Funding of Science in the United States



The New Politics of Science Figure 2: The Organization of U.S. Science



Universities and Industry: Knowledge as Commodity



Science and the Military: Knowledge as Power



Science and Foreign Policy: Knowledge as Imperialism



Science and Society: Public Participation vs. Democratic Control



Regulating Technology: Science as Legitimation



Toward a Democratic Strategy for Science Source


Notes


Glossary of Acronyms


Index