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  • 1
    ISBN: 9780511628719
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 639 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Scientific controversies
    DDC: 303.4/83
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    Keywords: Technology Case studies Social aspects ; Technology Case studies Philosophy ; Science Case studies Social aspects ; Science Case studies Philosophy ; Science ; Social aspects ; Case studies ; Technology ; Social aspects ; Case studies ; Science ; Philosophy ; Case studies ; Technology ; Philosophy ; Case studies ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Naturwissenschaften ; Soziologie ; Naturwissenschaften ; Technik ; Kontroverse ; Ethik
    Abstract: This collection of essays examines the ways in which disputes and controversies about the application of scientific knowledge are resolved. Four concrete examples of public controversy are considered in detail: the efficacy of Laetrile, the classification of homosexuality as a disease, the setting of safety standards in the workplace, and the utility of nuclear energy as a source of power. The essays in this volume show that debates about these cases are not confined to matters of empirical fact. Rather, as is seen with most scientific and technical controversies, they focus on and are structured by complex ethical, economic, and political interests. Drs. Engelhardt and Caplan have brought together a distinguished group of scholars from the sciences and humanities, who sketch a theory of scientific controversy and attempt to provide recommendations about the ways in which both scientists and the public ought to seek more informed resolutions of highly contentious issues in science and technology. Scientific Controversies is offered as a contribution to the better understanding of the roles of both science and nonscientific interests in disputes and controversies pertaining to science and technology
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) , Homosexuality. Politics, science, and the problem of psychiatric nomenclature : a case study of the American Psychiatric Association referendum on homosexuality , Patterns of controversy and closure : the interplay of knowledge, values, and political forces , The diagnostic status of homosexuality in DSM-III : a reformulation of the issues , On arriving at the American Psychiatric Association decision on homosexuality , Safety in the workplace. Values in the debate over workplace safety and health : the rancorous rhetoric about regulation / r Gilbert S. Omenn ; The successful experiment that failed , The power of efficiency : balancing benefits and costs in regulating occupational exposure to toxic substances , Closure in occupational safety and health : the benzene and cotton dust decisions , Nuclear power. Nuclear fear : a history and an experiment , Closure and controversy : Three Mile Island , Understanding the nuclear power controversy , Controversy, closure, and the public. The role of the mass media in scientific controversy , The National Commission on Human Experimentation : procedures and outcomes , The forms and norms of closure / Ruth Macklin. , Theoretical perspectives. Ethical theory and the problem of closure , Scientific controversy and its termination , The political anatomy of controversy in the sciences , Controversies involving science and technology : a theoretical perspective , Politics, public policy-making, and the process of reaching closure , The role of experts in scientific controversy , The continental drift debate , How history and politics affect closure in biomedical discussions : the example of the Soviet Union , Scientific disputes over policy , Controversies and the authority of science , Post-Skinner and post-Freud : philosophical causes of scientific disagreements , Contemporary case studies. Laetrile. Resolution of the Laetrile controversy : past attempts and future prospects , Federal regulation of Laetrile , Quasi libertarianism and the Laetrile controversy , Judicial deflection of scientific questions : pushing the Laetrile controversy toward medical closure
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  • 2
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780511157677
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (448 pages)
    DDC: 300.6041
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    Keywords: National Association for the Promotion of Social Science ; Geschichte ; Sozialpolitik ; Soziologie ; Politik ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: Goldman examines the origins of social policies, focusing on the Social Science Association.
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  • 3
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511563706
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xii, 422 pages)
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    DDC: 303.48/3
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Technology assessment / Congresses ; Technology assessment / Europe / Congresses ; Nuclear energy / Social aspects / Congresses ; Information technology / Social aspects / Congresses ; Biotechnology / Social aspects / Congresses ; Neue Technologie ; Technik ; Kernenergie ; Informationstechnik ; Biotechnologie ; Risikoanalyse ; Widerstand ; Technikbewertung ; Europa ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift ; Biotechnologie ; Technikbewertung ; Kernenergie ; Technikbewertung ; Technik ; Risikoanalyse ; Biotechnologie ; Widerstand ; Kernenergie ; Widerstand ; Neue Technologie ; Technikbewertung ; Informationstechnik ; Technikbewertung
    Abstract: This book compares resistance to technology across time, nations, and technologies. Three post-war examples - nuclear power, information technology, and biotechnology - are used in the analysis. The focus is on post-1945 Europe, with comparisons made with the USA, Japan, and Australia. Instead of assuming that resistance contributes to the failure of a technology, the main thesis of the book is that resistance is a constructive force in technological development, giving technology its particular shape in a particular context. Whilst many people still believe in the positive contribution made by science and technology, many have become sceptical. By exploring the idea that modernity creates effects that undermine its own foundations, forms and effects of resistance are explored in various contexts. The book presents a unique interdisciplinary study, including contributions from historians, sociologists, psychologists, and political scientists
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) , Resistance to new technology and its effects on nuclear power, information technology and biotechnology , The crisis of 'Progress' , Reinterpreting 'Luddism': resistance to new technology in the British Industrial Revolution , The changeability of public opinions about new technology: assimilation effects in attitude surveys , 'Technophobia': a misleading conception of resistance to new technology , Patterns of resistance to new technologies in Scandinavia: an historical perspective , Henry Ford's relationship to 'Fordism': ambiguity as a modality of technological resistance , Resistance to nuclear technology: optimists, opportunists and opposition in Australian nuclear history , New technology in Fleet Street, 1975-80 , The impact of resistance to biotechnology in Switzerland: a sociological view of the recent referendum , The politics of resistance to new technology: semiconductor diffusion in France and Japan until 1965 , User resistance to new interactive media: participants, processes and paradigms , The impact of anti-nuclear power movements in international comparison , In the engine of industry: regulators of biotechnology, 1970-86 , Product, process, or programme: three cultures and the regulation of biotechnology , Learning from Chernobyl for the fight against genetics? Stages and stimuli of German protest movements -- a comparative synopsis , Individual and institutional impacts upon press coverage of sciences: the case of nuclear power and genetic engineering in Germany , Forms of intrusion: comparing resistance to information technology and biotechnology in the USA , Towards a functional analysis of resistance
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