Description
Social Studies of Science and Technology: Looking Back, Ahead, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003
Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook Series, Vol. 23
Coordinators: Joerges B., Nowotny H.
Language: EnglishSubject for Social Studies of Science and Technology: Looking Back...:
Keywords
Institution; history of science; politics; sociology; technology
306 p. · 15.5x23.5 cm · Hardback
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This volume brings together contributions that resemble spotlights thrown on the past twenty-five years of science and technology studies. It covers a broad range: history of science; science and politics; science and contemporary democracy; science and the public; science and the constitution; science and metaphors; and science and modernity and provides a critical overview of how the field of science and technology studies has emerged and developed.