Science and Democracy: Making Knowledge and Making Power in the Biosciences and Beyond - Couverture rigide

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9780415821346: Science and Democracy: Making Knowledge and Making Power in the Biosciences and Beyond
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ISBN 10 : 0415821347 ISBN 13 : 9780415821346
Editeur : Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

In the life sciences and beyond, new developments in science and technology and the creation of new social orders go hand in hand. In short, science and society are simultaneously and reciprocally coproduced and changed. Scientific research not only produces new knowledge and technological systems but also constitutes new forms of expertise and contributes to the emergence of new modes of living and new forms of exchange. These dynamic processes are tightly connected to significant redistributions of wealth and power, and they sometimes threaten and sometimes enhance democracy. Understanding these phenomena poses important intellectual and normative challenges: neither traditional social sciences nor prevailing modes of democratic governance have fully grappled with the deep and growing significance of knowledge-making in twenty-first century politics and markets.

Building on new work in science and technology studies (STS), this book advances the systematic analysis of the coproduction of knowledge and power in contemporary societies. Using case studies in the new life sciences, supplemented with cases on informatics and other topics such as climate science, this book presents a theoretical framing of coproduction processes while also providing detailed empirical analyses and nuanced comparative work.

Science and Democracy: Knowledge as Wealth and Power in the Biosciences and Beyond will be interesting for students of sociology, science & technology studies, history of science, genetics, political science, and public administration.

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À propos de l?auteur

Stephen Hilgartner, Clark Miller, Rob Hagendijk

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0415821347
ISBN 13 
9780415821346
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
266
Éditeur
Hilgartner Stephen, Miller Clark, Hagendijk Rob
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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9780367867867: Science and Democracy

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ISBN 10 :  0367867869 ISBN 13 :  9780367867867
Editeur : Routledge, 2019
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