the global governance of science and global administrative law

... aspects of one and the same development Global Administrative Law and Global Governance Another approach the advantages of which cannot easily be discarded is the more recent concept of global governance ... is one of the central theses of this book that freedom of science as a human right lies at the very heart of the international governance of science5 2 III Conclusion The concept of global administrative ... institutions, legal rules and principles, of global norms for the purpose of the international governance of science and of administrative mechanisms to ensure the sound management of science- related problems...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 00:20

... president of the National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Engineering was established in 1964, under the charter of the National Academy of Sciences, as a parallel organization of outstanding ... Academy of Sciences to secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health of the public The Institute acts under the responsibility ... president of the Institute of Medicine The National Research Council was organized by the National Academy of Sciences in 1916 to associate the broad community of science and technology with the Academy’s...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 12:20

... During these periods the university is on vacation indicating low population hence the variation in the monthly sludge generation The estimation of the biogas potential of the sludge the quality of ... halls of residence, main library and faculty buildings on campus are connected as shown in Figure 1, the same cannot be said of the residential apartment of lecturers and other staff of the university ... Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana He is the Acting Director of The Energy Centre, College of Engineering,...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:11

... matter how the earth moves with respect to the background of distant stars, the speed of light remains the same This mystery of the speed of light and the existence, or nonexistence, of the ether was ... one of the deepest principles of science and philosophy the underlying nature of reality To understand how this happened is to confront one of the great transformations in our understanding of the ... and register how high the mercury rises For this to happen some of the heat of the water must have been used to heat up and expand the mercury in the thermometer In other words, an exchange of...

Ngày tải lên: 09/04/2014, 16:38

... knowledge and the implications of investigating the Universe from within Our study of the limits of science and the science of limits will take us from the consideration of practical limits of cost, ... reminiscent of the fate of many of the creative arts There, the 'ironic' label singles out the postmodernist attitude that there is no core of reader-independent truth at the root of the work The text ... into Gödel's theorem The paradoxical result of the Michelson-Morley experiment on the speed of light set the stage for the theory of relativity The discovery of wave-particle duality of light forced...

Ngày tải lên: 05/06/2014, 11:26

... Studies of Science, and President of the Society for Social Studies of Science Above and beyond these leadership roles, he was and remains a guiding spirit for the field As we reflect on the central themes ... itself and its effects on, for example, lung tissue and global climate Consequently, the politics of science and technology the subject and agenda of so many of the chapters in this Handbook—becomes ... challenge the seamlessness of scientific and technical expertise There are competing epistemes in science and law, and when science is brought into the courtroom the value of its forms of knowledge...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 15:31

... organization and require a high degree of centralization, although neither of these latter two approaches is particularly dependent upon the size of the organization Regardless of the size of the organization, ... were going to start a research business They walk in and anoint their office nurse study coordinator for the day They two trials and they look at each other and say, boy this is a whole lot harder ... over them The size of an organization can indicate its capacity to run multiple studies over time, reflecting the number of clinicians and patients involved in the organization and how much of the...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... 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 institutional ... to a state of affairs, and so on; (6) direct perception is the end and not the beginning of the process of fact genesis Fact is the provisional end of the vector and all the questions of correspondence ... transformation of horses and the progressive transformation of our interpretations of their transformations To the branching history of life was now added the branching history of the science of life,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... examines the relations between two broad arenas of scholarship and technology building at the intersection of femi- Feminist STS and the Sciences of the Artificial 153 nism and the sciences of the ... from the point of view of the AI prac- Feminist STS and the Sciences of the Artificial 145 titioners studied by Forsythe is imagined in terms of process engineering, the design and management of ... be antithetical to the spirit of the scholarship that I have selected to review The point of distinguishing feminist-inspired STS from the wider field of research, and the “sciences of the artificial”...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... questions about the social persuasiveness and power of images and about the role of science in the constitution of identity and seeing As Burri and Dumit remind us in their work on images and the authors ... Giere and Miriam Solomon, both of whom investigate the intersection between STS and the new practice-oriented philosophical studies of science In philosophy, the abandonment of the grand project of ... Center and Periphery, and the Universal Validity of Science: The Significance of the Life of S Ramanujan,” Minerva 29: 393–419 Shrum, Wesley (2000) Science and Story in Development: The Emergence of...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... Perspective: The Nature of Mind and the Structure of Science (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press) Churchland, Paul M (1996) The Engine of Reason, The Seat of the Soul: A Philosophical Journey into the Brain ... Burri and Joseph Dumit The practice turn in STS taught us to attend to the work of science and technology in terms of both the processes of production and the resulting products The challenge of ... because the early antidemarcationist studies left off of their stated project at the outset, and because the field left off of them presuming the job had been accomplished, this has contributed to the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:23

... 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, ... defining the laboratory and the experimental station as the sites of legitimation of botany and zoology from the mid-nineteenth century (and thereby increasing their status), the place of science ... thought they were up to, the evaluation of their activities by those who then (and later) had greater power to solidify the boundaries of science put them on the outside—not just because of their...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:23

... of the western mind.” As late as 1986, Richard Westfall—then the dean of America’s historians of science put science right at the heart of the modern order: “For good and for ill, science stands ... between the abstract and formalized estimates of the experts and the perception of risk by the farmers caused a loss of confidence by the latter in the government experts and their conviction that of cial ... of science rests upon a general notion of the independence and integrity of science, and these qualities are now jeopardized by increasingly close connections of science with the production of...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:23

... the state,” and the market,” and of course—between science and “politics” (Epstein, 2001) Observation of patient groups and health movements reveals, on the one hand, cases of patients and ... range of factors, including the epidemiological significance of the condition, the availability of an unequivocal diagnostic test, the social class of the sufferers, the degree of activism, and the ... with the market and with the state? What are the effects of these groups on the vast social inequalities that characterize the field of health and health care? What conceptions of medical science...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:23

... permeates much of the work of the time Indeed, much of the literature of the 1980s and early 1990s can be seen as digesting the implications of engineering being practiced in the context of business ... reinforce the conventional boundaries between the human and the nonhuman, the political and the scientific, government and the public, the EEA concept is to be open to the transgression of boundaries and ... STS concepts and theories provide illuminating analyses of the social processes that constitute science and technology and the social institutions and arrangements of which science and technology...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:23

... that the other historical trends described above of the globalization of corporate trade and investment, and the crisis of the research universities, come into their own The breakdown of the Chandlerian ... lean on the work of Alfred Chandler, and in particular his book The Visible Hand (1977), to provide the framework within which they situate their understandings of the rise of commercialized science ... shaped by the authors’ attitude toward contemporary changes in the political economy of science The nature of and consequences of the profound transformations of the organization of science that...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:23

... (London: Department of Trade and Industry) The Commercialization of Science and the Response of STS 689 Van Horn, Robert (unpublished) The Rise of the Chicago School of Law and Economics,” Ph.D ... As Noble (1977) argues, these were also facilitated by the professionalization of science and technology and the alignment of the professions with the emerging structures of corporate capitalism ... Science, Technology and Military Policy” tells us much about the international context of the late 1970s, in addition to the state of the study of science and technology at the time The chapter was...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:23

... views of the nature of science withstood the critical insights offered by STS academics 778 Sheila Jasanoff SCIENCE, LAW, AND CULTURE The idea of law may be universal, but the ways in which the law ... epistemology, and culture The section on engagements traces the relationship of science and technology with the law as a historical phenomenon and an emerging field of academic inquiry The theme of authority ... challenge and respond to some of the basic categories of legal thought A central node of engagement is the concept of law itself Since the beginnings of the scientific revolution, the word law has...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:23