ISBN:
9780415531528
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (541 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge International Handbooks
Series Statement:
Routledge International Handbooks Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Routledge Handbook of Science, Technology, and Society
DDC:
303.48/3
Keywords:
Science - Social aspects
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Over the last decade or so, the field of science and technology studies (STS) has become an intellectually dynamic interdisciplinary arena. Concepts, methods, and theoretical perspectives are being drawn both from long-established and relatively young disciplines. From its origins in philosophical and political debates about the creation and use of scientific knowledge, STS has become a wide and deep space for the consideration of the place of science and technology in the world, past and present.The Routledge Handbook of Science, Technology and Society seeks to capture the dynamism and breadt
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Science, technology and society; PART I Embodiment; 1 The Emergence, Politics, and Marketplace of Native American DNA; 2 Technoscience, Racism, and the Metabolic Syndrome; 3 Standards as "Weapons of Exclusion": Ex-gays and the materialization of the male body; 4 Curves to Bodies: The material life of graphs; PART II Consuming technoscience; 5 Producing the Consumer of Genetic Testing: The double-edged sword of empowerment
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6 The Social Life of DTC Genetics: The case of 23andMe7 Cultures of Visibility and the Shape of Social Controversies in the Global High-Tech Electronics Industry; 8 The Science of Robust Bodies in Neoliberalizing India; PART III Digitization; 9 Toward the Inclusion of Pricing Models in Sociotechnical Analyses: The SAE International Technological Protection Measure; 10 The Web, Digital Prostheses, and Augmented Subjectivity; 11 Political Culture of Gaming in Korea amid Neoliberal Globalization
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12 Cultural Understandings and Contestations in the Global Governance of Information Technologies and NetworksPART IV Environments; 13 Green Energy, Public Engagement, and the Politics of Scale; 14 Political Scale and Conflicts over Knowledge Production: The case of unconventional natural-gas development; 15 Not Here and Everywhere: The non-production of scientific knowledge; 16 Political Ideology and the Green-Energy Transition in the United States; 17 Risk State: Nuclear Politics in an Age of Ignorance; 18 From River to Border: The Jordan between empire and nation-state
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19 State-Environment Relationality: Organic engines and governance regimesPART V Technoscience as Work; 20 Invisible Production and the Production of Invisibility: Cleaning, maintenance, and mining in the nuclear sector; 21 Social Scientists and Humanists in the Health Research Field: A clash of epistemic habitus; 22 Women in the Knowledge Economy: Understanding gender inequality through the lens of collaboration; 23 The Utilitarian View of Science and the Norms and Practices of Korean Scientists; 24 Science as Comfort: The strategic use of science in post-disaster settings
Description / Table of Contents:
PART VI Rules and Standards25 Declarative Bodies: Bureaucracy, ethics, and science-in-the-making; 26 Big Pharma and Big Medicine in the Global Environment; 27 On the Effects of e-Government on Political Institutions; 28 Science, Social Justice, and Post-Belmont Research Ethics: Implications for regulation and environmental health science; Index
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