| Author | : John Gascoigne |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 265 |
| Release | : 2019-03-21 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107155673 |
The first historical overview of the partnership between science and the state from the Scientific Revolution to World War II.
| Author | : Marc Zimmer |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 221 |
| Release | : 2020-07-20 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1633886409 |
New research and innovations in the field of science are leading to life-changing and world-altering discoveries like never before. What does the horizon of science look like? Who are the scientists that are making it happen? And, how are we to introduce these revolutions to a society in which a segment of the population has become more and more skeptical of science? Climate change is the biggest challenge facing our nation, and scientists are working on renewable energy sources, meat alternatives, and carbon dioxide sequestration. At the same time, climate change deniers and the politicization of funding threaten their work. CRISPR, (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) repurposes bacterial defense systems to edit genes, which can change the way we live, but also presents real ethical problems. Optogenetics will help neuroscientists map complicated neural circuitry deep inside the brain, shedding light on treating Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. Zimmer also investigates phony science ranging from questionable “health” products to the fervent anti-vaccination movement. Zimmer introduces readers to the real people making these breakthroughs. Concluding with chapters on the rise of women in STEM fields, the importance of US immigration policies to science, and new, unorthodox ways of DIY science and crowdsource funding, The State of Science shows where science is, where it is heading, and the scientists who are at the forefront of progress.
| Author | : Sheila Jasanoff |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 404 |
| Release | : 2004-07-31 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1134328338 |
Notes on contributors Acknowledgements 1. The Idiom of Co-production Sheila Jasanoff 2. Ordering Knowledge, Ordering Society Sheila Jasanoff 3. Climate Science and the Making of a Global Political Order Clark A. Miller 4. Co-producing CITES and the African Elephant Charis Thompson 5. Knowledge and Political Order in the European Environment Agency Claire Waterton and Brian Wynne 6. Plants, Power and Development: Founding the Imperial Department of Agriculture for the West Indies, 1880-1914 William K. Storey 7. Mapping Systems and Moral Order: Constituting property in genome laboratories Stephen Hilgartner 8. Patients and Scientists in French Muscular Dystrophy Research Vololona Rabeharisoa and Michel Callon 9. Circumscribing Expertise: Membership categories in courtroom testimony Michael Lynch 10. The Science of Merit and the Merit of Science: Mental order and social order in early twentieth-century France and America John Carson 11. Mysteries of State, Mysteries of Nature: Authority, knowledge and expertise in the seventeenth century Peter Dear 12. Reconstructing Sociotechnical Order: Vannevar Bush and US science policy Michael Aaron Dennis 13. Science and the Political Imagination in Contemporary Democracies Yaron Ezrah 14. Afterword Sheila Jasanoff References Index
| Author | : Patrick Carroll |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 291 |
| Release | : 2006-10-02 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0520247531 |
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| Author | : Donald Kennedy |
| Publisher | : Island Press |
| Total Pages | : 217 |
| Release | : 2006-06-15 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1597266248 |
How often in today's environmental debates have you read that "the science is in dispute"-even when there is overwhelming consensus among scientists? Too often, the voice of science is diminished or diluted for the sake of politics, and the public is misled. Now, the most authoritative voice in U.S. science, Science magazine, brings you current scientific knowledge on today's most pressing environmental challenges, from population growth to climate change to biodiversity loss. Science Magazine's State of the Planet 2006-2007 is a unique contribution that brings together leading environmental scientists and researchers to give readers a comprehensive yet accessible overview of current issues. Included are explanatory essays from Science magazine editor-in-chief Donald Kennedy that tie together the issues and explore the relationships among them. Each of the book's 18 chapters is written by the world's leading experts, such as: Joel Cohen on population Peter Gleick on water Daniel Pauly on fisheries Thomas Karl on climate change science Paul Portney on energy and development Elinor Ostrom and Thomas Dietz on commons management Interspersed throughout are Science news pieces that highlight particular issues and cases relevant to the main scientific findings. An added feature is the inclusion of definitions of key terms and concepts that help students and nonspecialists understand the issues. Published biennially, State of the Planet is a clear, accessible guide for readers of all levels-from students to professionals.
| Author | : Robert Fox |
| Publisher | : JHU Press |
| Total Pages | : 421 |
| Release | : 2012-09 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1421405229 |
This debate, Fox argues, became a contest for the hearts and minds of the French citizenry.
| Author | : Richard P. Nathan |
| Publisher | : SUNY Press |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 2000-07-01 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780914341666 |
A new, substantially updated, and expanded version of a classic work on how to evaluate public policy published over a decade ago.
| Author | : Daniel Lee Kleinman |
| Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 2000-09-28 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0791491862 |
Activists, scientists, and scholars in the social sciences and humanities explore in productive dialogue what it means to democratize science and technology. The contributors consider what role lay people can have in a realm traditionally restricted to experts, and examine the socio-economic and ideological barriers to creating a science oriented more toward human needs. Included are several case studies of efforts to expand the role of citizens—including discussions of AIDS treatment activism, technology consensus conferences in Europe and the United States, the regulation of nuclear materials processing and disposal, and farmer networks in sustainable agriculture—and examinations of how the Enlightenment premises of modern science constrain its field of vision. Other chapters suggest how citizens can interpret differing opinions within scientific communities on issues of clear public relevance. Contributors include Steven Epstein, Sandra Harding, Neva Hassanein, Louise Kaplan, Daniel Lee Kleinman, Daniel Sarewitz, Stephen H. Schneider, and Richard E. Sclove.
| Author | : Zaheer Baber |
| Publisher | : SUNY Press |
| Total Pages | : 316 |
| Release | : 1996-05-16 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780791429204 |
Investigates the complex social processes involved in the introduction and institutionalization of Western science in colonial India.
