ISBN:
9780203113820
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1283521377
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9781136288418
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9781283521376
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (305 Seiten)
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Science in society series
Parallel Title:
Print version Science and Public Reason
DDC:
303.48/3
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Wissenschaftssoziologie
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Wissenschaft
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Öffentliche Meinung
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Vernunft
Abstract:
This collection of essays by Sheila Jasanoff explores how democratic governments construct public reason, that is, the forms of evidence and argument used in making state decisions accountable to citizens. The term public reason as used here is not simply a matter of deploying principled arguments that respect the norms of democratic deliberation. Jasanoff investigates what states do in practice when they claim to be reasoning in the public interest. Reason, from this perspective, comprises the institutional practices, discourses, techniques and instruments through which governments claim legi
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface by David Winickoff; Acknowledgements; Credits; 1 Reason in practice; 2 Product, process, or programme: three cultures and the regulation of biotechnology; 3 In the democracies of DNA: ontological uncertainty and political order in three states; 4 Restoring reason: causal narratives and political culture; 5 Image and imagination: the formation of global environmental consciousness; 6 Contested boundaries in policy-relevant science; 7 The songlines of risk; 8 Judgment under siege: the three-body problem of expert legitimacy
Description / Table of Contents:
9 Technologies of humility: citizen participation in governing science10 What judges should know about the sociology of science; 11 Expert games in silicone gel breast implant litigation; 12 The eye of everyman: witnessing DNA in the Simpson trial; 13 In a constitutional moment: science and social order at the millennium; 14 Afterword; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
DOI:
10.4324/9780203113820
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