... Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kwame Nkrumah University ofScienceandTechnology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana He is the Acting Director of The Energy Centre, College of Engineering, ... University ofScienceand Technology, 2009 [4] GATE and GTZ German Appropriate Technology Exchange (GATE) and German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ), Biogas Digest Volume II: Application and ... Mestas C and Santos D Economical and Environmental Analysisof a Biogas Plant within the Context of a Real Farm The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Denmark, 2007 [8] Design of biogas...
... in its commitment to understanding the ethics and values implicit in scienceandtechnologyandto using that understanding to guide the transformative powers ofscienceandtechnology in ways ... to the ethics, history, philosophy, and social study ofscienceandtechnologyto be found within the research councils andscience foundations of many governments Looking backward is a way of ... first director of the Science Studies Unit at the University of Edinburgh, co-founding editor of Social Studies of Science, and President of the Society for Social Studies ofScience Above and beyond...
... authority ofscience CONCLUSION Martin Rudwick’s map of 1840 London begins to suggest how the places ofscience have changed With labels pointing to major scientific institutions andto residences of ... Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (Amsterdam: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) Wouters, P (2005) The Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences, ... juxtaposition of the ordinary practice ofscienceand its imagery or public understanding, and (3) how the emplacement ofscience creates opportunities for resistance to its cultural authority LOCATING SCIENCE...
... 2003) is not to celebrate the fusion of humans andtechnology but to subvert and displace meanings in order to create alternative views, languages, and practices of technosciences and hybrid subjects.7 ... are used to describe the reactions of human (and nonhuman) actors to “what is prescribed and proscribed to them” and refer, respectively, to the extent to which they underwrite or reject and renegotiate ... order to build a firm base of knowledge, and now needs to get back to the original path “Seen in this perspective, the scienceandtechnology studies of the 1980s are an academic detour to collect...
... expectations about scienceand technology, in the case of PUS, the expectations concern people’s reactions and behavior toward scienceandtechnology If we view the “deficit model” of PUS as constructing ... existence of these different ways of seeing the same material Rather, we would like to agree with Taussig, Rapp, and Heath and suggest that, withregardto the social implications of genomics, ... data and specific kinds of proofs are demanded in order to make the link between mechanism, disease, and therapy andto reduce the variability of practices and products thought to create inefficiencies...