Controversial Science - From Content to Contention

This book represents emerging alternative perspectives to the "constructivist" orthodoxy that currently dominates the field of science and technology studies. Various contributions from distinguished Americans and Europeans in the field, provide arguments and evidence that it is not enough simply to say that science is "socially situated." Controversial Science focuses on important political, ethical, and broadly normative considerations that have yet to be given their due, but which point to a more realistic and critical perspective on science policy.

About the author

Thomas Brante is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Steve Fuller is Associate Professor at the Center for Study of Science in Society at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and he is the author of Philosophy of Science and Its Discontents and Social Epistemology. William Lynch is Doctoral Fellow in the History of Science and Technology Program at Cornell University.

Product details

• Assisted by: Thomas Brante (Editor), Steve Fuller (Editor), William Lynch (Editor)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.1993
• EAN: 9780791414743
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-1474-3
• No. of pages: 326
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 472 g
• Series: Suny Series in Science, Techno; Suny Series in Science, Techno; Suny Science, Technology, and
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories