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... for Social Studies of Science (4S) The Society selected the proposal by the editorial team and constituted the Handbook Advisory Board to monitor and assist in the process Most importantly, the ... the members of the Advisory Board, andthe staff at MIT Press First and foremost, however, the Society is indebted to the editors Ed Hackett, Olga Amsterdamska, Mike Lynch, and Judy Wajcman They ... Establishing and holding the right balance will be challenging, with the risk of irrelevance and disengagement on the one side and cooptation and loss of prestige and resources on the other Through...
... Knowledge Studio forthe Humanities and Social Sciences @ the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (Amsterdam: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) Wouters, P (2005) The Virtual ... traders and sailors who procured the plants and got them safely to Holland, and there is little merit in diminishing the consequentiality of the former just to raise curiosity about the latter ... the large-scale, routinized production of these traces Yet, the scientists themselves and their institutions were still separate from these inscriptions, although they derived their meaning and...
... concepts and theory could inform, enlighten, and transform the field of engineering ethics in significant ways To illustrate the links between STS and engineering ethics andthe potential for crossfertilization, ... nonhuman, the political andthe scientific, government andthe public, theEEA concept is to be open to the transgression of boundaries andthe flexible construction of actants In that sense, EEAs “are ... War II, continuing with the Three Mile Island disaster, the Ford Pinto case, andthe explosion at Bhopal, generated a significant concern in the media andthe public about the effects of technology...
... implications for transnational and local governance andforthe role of democratic participation in science and medicine The neologism regenerative medicine (RM) stands forthe set of sciences and technologies ... discomfort and mobility needs andthe practitioner’s analysis of gait andthe biomechanics of the adapted device, tacit knowledge and a mutual reading of body signs work together to align the body ... eligible forthe trial, andthe mechanical heart could have outlasted the patient), Fox and Swazey raised the question of what “success” means in the attempt to create synthetic substitutes for vital...
... 326, 334–335 information and media reform movements, 485–486 information concept in SSF, 903 information infrastructures, 122 information technology industry, 698 See also media and information technologies ... response/responders, 750–752, 754 proving efficacy, impediments to, 750 the re-codification of illness for, 746–748 andthe search for authenticity and identity, 858 target populations, marketing to, 753 pharmacogenomics, ... political theory communitarianism, conservatism, andthe sociology of science, 69–71 critical theory, multiculturalism, feminism, 71–73 language of STS andthe language of policy, 78–79 liberalism and, ...
... pumped into Sand Filters (SF) for further filtration From the SF, the liquid portion is discharged into a nearby river The gravels in the SF and PF are occasionally removed and cleaned There are ... screen The sewage is then pumped into the PST for dewatering as shown in Figure The sludge (solid portion) settles at the bottom whiles the liquid remains on top The liquid is channelled into the ... present in the liquid settles at the bottom The sludge present in SST is channelled to the Sludge Pumping Station (SPS) where it is pumped back into the PST for recycling whiles the liquid from the...