The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Part 15 ppt

... Professor and Chair of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University. He has published fourteen books and numerous articles on aspects of the sociology of science and technology. His studies ... senior lecturer in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. He studies the theory and history of military strategy and is the author...

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... the democratization of science and technology come to the fore. THE LANGUAGE OF STS AND THE LANGUAGE OF POLICY The broad context of the crisis of representation, and the question of whether insti- tutional ... British government’s Of ce of Science and Innovation, part of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), emphasizes the shift fro...

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... relevance for studies of scientific practice even in the age of global networks and standardized settings. The question of “who?” of how to conceptualize actors and their identities—is, of course, ... discussion—even if understanding the product depends on the process. We normally divide the content of an argument into two parts: the conclusion or point of the...

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... 9); of African-Americans with sickle- cell anemia who resist the racialization of the disease and the consequent pathologization of their racial identities (Fullwiley, 1998); of the sector of the ... expanding variety of ways—indeed, there is probably a complex interaction between the spread of analytical categories, on the one hand, and of the self- descri...

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... Basic Research and the Benefits of University-Industry Relationships: A Literature Review and Update of Findings,” Report for the Of ce of Science and Technology, DTI, U.K. Science and Technology ... about the issues associated with science, technology, and the military, rather than problematizing science and technology themselves, and their boundaries...

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... research agenda on science and technology in the development process. THREE PERSPECTIVES Science and Technology Studies Over the decade since the last edition of this Handbook, the social sciences have ... extension of core concerns in STS with the construction of facts and truth and as a means of exploring the social relations of science and tech...

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... compromise and a result of a series of tradeoffs between reliability and ease of interpretation necessary to make the technology usable in the clinic. An extension of social studies was actor-network theory, ... Greater volumes of data and specific kinds of proofs are demanded in order to make the link between mechanism, disease, and therapy and to reduce the...

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... is the result and is the result and not the not the cause of a machine the “social” is the result and not the not the cause of a machine cause of a statement becoming a successful cause of the ... would be antithetical to the spirit of the scholarship that I have selected to review. The point of distinguishing feminist-inspired STS from the wider fie...

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... to the work of science and technology in terms of both the processes of production and the resulting products. The chal- lenge of SIV is now to incorporate together the work of science and technology ... embed- dedness of the practices of the making and handling of visual representations and of the shaping, distributing, applying, and embo...

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