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Handbook of Science and Technology Studies

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ISBN-10: 0262083647

ISBN-13: 9780262083645

Edition: 3rd 2007

Authors: Edward J. Hackett, Olga Amsterdamska, Judy Wajcman, Michael Lynch, Wiebe E. Bijker

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Science and Technology Studies is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the creation, development, and consequences of science and technology in their cultural, historical, and social contexts. "The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies" provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the field, reviewing current research and major theoretical and methodological approaches and analyzing emergent issues in a form that is accessible to new and established scholars from a range of disciplines. Handbook chapters review the dominant theoretical perspectives of S&TS, present the current state of research on a spectrum of topics in the field, analyze changes brought about…    
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Book details

List price: $64.00
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 9/28/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 1080
Size: 9.75" wide x 10.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 3.740
Language: English

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Ideas and Perspectives
Science and Technology Studies and an Engaged Program
The Social Study of Science before Kuhn
Political Theory in Science and Technology Studies
A Textbook Case Revisited-Knowledge as a Mode of Existence
The Social Worlds Framework
A Theory/Methods Package
Feminist STS and the Sciences of the Artificial
Technological Determinism Is Dead
Long Live Technological Determinism
Pramoedya's Chickens
Postcolonial Studies of Technoscience
Practices, People, and Places
Argumentation in Science
The Cross-Fertilization of Argumentation Theory and Science Studies
STS and Social Epistemology of Science
Cognitive Studies of Science
Give Me a Laboratory and I Will Raise a Discipline
The Past, Present, and Future Politics of Laboratory Studies in STS
Social Studies of Scientific Imaging and Visualization
Messy Shapes of Knowledge-STS Explores Informatization, New Media, and Academic Work
The Virtual Knowledge Studio:
Sites of Scientific Practice
The Enduring Importance of Place
Scientific Training and the Creation of Scientific Knowledge
The Coming Gender Revolution in Science
Politics and Publics
Science in the Modern World
Science and Public Participation
Science, Technology, and Social Movements
Patient Groups and Health Movements
User-Technology Relationships
Some Recent Developments
STS and Ethics
Implications for Engineering Ethics
STS Perspectives on Scientific Governance
Expertise
From Attribute to Attribution and Back Again?
Institutions and Economics
The Commercialization of Science and the Response of STS
Organizational Contexts of Science
Boundaries and Relationships between University and Industry
Science, Technology, and the Military
Priorities, Preoccupations, and Possibilities
The Right Patient for the Drug
Pharmaceutical Circuits and the Codification of Illness
Making Order
Law and Science in Action
Knowledge and Development
Emergent Technosciences
Genomics, STS, and the Making of Sociotechnical Futures
Emerging Medical Technologies
Biomedical Technologies, Cultural Horizons, and Contested Boundaries
STS and Social Studies of Finance
Nature and the Environment in Science and Technology Studies
Bridging STS and Communication Studies
Scholarship on Media and Information Technologies
Anticipatory Governance of Nanotechnology
Foresight, Engagement, and Integration
List of Contributors
Name Index
Subject Index