New Frontiers in Science - Couverture souple

Fuller, Steve

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0745636942 ISBN 13 : 9780745636948

Editeur : Polity Press, 2007

Synopsis

Steve Fuller has a reputation for setting the terms of debate within science and technology studies. In his latest book, New Frontiers in Science and Technology Studies he charts the debates likely to be of relevance in the coming years.

*Should science and technology be treated as separate entities?*What impact has globalization had on science and technology? *Can science be clearly distinguished from other forms of knowledge? *Does the politicization of science really matter?
*Is there a role for the social regulation of scientific inquiry?
*Should we be worried about research fraud?

These questions are explored by examining an array of historical, philosophical and contemporary sources. Attention is paid, for example, to the Bruno Latour's The Politics of Nature as a model for science policy, as well as the global controversy surrounding Bjorn Lomborg's The Sceptical Environmentalist, which led to the dismantling and re-establishment of the Danish national research ethics board.

New Frontiers in Science and Technology Studies will appeal strongly to scholars and advanced undergraduate and graduate students in courses concerned with the social dimensions of science and technology, and anyone who cares about the future of science.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Steve Fuller is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Polity Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0745636942
• ISBN 13: 9780745636948
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible