New Frontiers in Science and Technology StudiesPolity Press, 2007 M10 1 - 240 pages Steve Fuller has a reputation for setting the terms of debate within science and technology studies. In his latest book, New Frontiers in Science and Technology Studies he charts the debates likely to be of relevance in the coming years.
These questions are explored by examining an array of historical, philosophical and contemporary sources. Attention is paid, for example, to the Bruno Latour's The Politics of Nature as a model for science policy, as well as the global controversy surrounding Bjorn Lomborg's The Sceptical Environmentalist, which led to the dismantling and re-establishment of the Danish national research ethics board. New Frontiers in Science and Technology Studies will appeal strongly to scholars and advanced undergraduate and graduate students in courses concerned with the social dimensions of science and technology, and anyone who cares about the future of science. |
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Page 72
... diffusion and migration , Galison occludes the overlap in the people who have contributed to the various intercalated traditions . 3. Unity and Disunity as Expressions of Constructivism and Realism 72 The Demarcation Problem.
... diffusion and migration , Galison occludes the overlap in the people who have contributed to the various intercalated traditions . 3. Unity and Disunity as Expressions of Constructivism and Realism 72 The Demarcation Problem.
Page 187
... diffusion . " The above discussion suggests that the globalization of technology can be explained by three mechanisms , which can be defined in terms of what is transferred across locations : ( 1 ) migration ( of people ) ; ( 2 ) diffusion ...
... diffusion . " The above discussion suggests that the globalization of technology can be explained by three mechanisms , which can be defined in terms of what is transferred across locations : ( 1 ) migration ( of people ) ; ( 2 ) diffusion ...
Page 188
... Diffusion was presented as more sensitive to the historical and ethnographic record than evolutionary strategies that assumed , often on the basis of vague cross - cultural analogies , that all cultures independently pursue similar ...
... Diffusion was presented as more sensitive to the historical and ethnographic record than evolutionary strategies that assumed , often on the basis of vague cross - cultural analogies , that all cultures independently pursue similar ...
Contents
List of Tables and Boxes | 1 |
Sciences Need for Unity | 53 |
Contrasting Visions | 85 |
Copyright | |
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