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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Science is Political/ Technology is Social: Concerns, Concepts, and Questions | |
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| Why is Thinking about Science and Technology so Hard? | |
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| Technoscience is Social | |
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| Technoscience is Political | |
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| Ceding Debate: Biotechnology and Agriculture | |
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| Biotechnology and the Social Organization of Agriculture and Agri-business | |
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| The Discursive Landscape in the Debate over Biotechnology | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Rethinking Information Technology: Caught in the World Wide Web | |
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| Understanding the Digital Divide | |
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| High Technology Education | |
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| Politics, Civil Action, and the Internet | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Owning Technoscience: Understanding the New Intellectual Property Battles | |
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| Intellectual Property, Social Common Sense, and the Knowledge Commons | |
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| Intellectual Property and the Information Technology Revolution | |
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| Owning Life: Intellectual Property in Biological Materials | |
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| Intellectual Property and Innovation | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Technoscience in the Third World: The Politics of Indigenous Resources | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Science, Technology, and Colonialism | |
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| From Colonialism to Bio-Colonialism | |
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| Towards Equity in the Exchange of Biological Resources | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Gender and the Ideology of Merit: Women, Men, Science, and Engineering"Merit" and Stratification in Science | |
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| Women, Men, and Academic Science | |
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| Women and Men in Science-Based Industry | |
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| Beyond Stratification in Science and Engineering: Artifacts and Research as Gendered | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Democracy and Expertise: Citizenship in a High Tech Age | |
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| The Limits to Expert Knowledge | |
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| The Virtues of Lay Knowledge | |
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| Barriers to Democratizing Technoscience and Expertise | |
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| Strategies for Overcoming the Obstacles | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Confronting the Problem: A Summary and Coda | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |