Technoscientific Imaginaries - Conversations, Profiles, and Memoirs

Summary

How have shifts in power and in assumptions about knowledge affected scientific practice? Who controls the new technologies, and how are moral and professional issues addressed during a time of global change? This work explores such questions of relevance in the current scientific climate.

Product details

• Assisted by: George E. Marcus (Editor)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.06.1995
• EAN: 9780226504438
• ISBN: 978-0-226-50443-8
• No. of pages: 570
• Dimensions: 17 mm x 24 mm x 3 mm
• Weight: 936 g
• Series: Late Editions:Cultural Studies End of Century LE; Late Editions: Cultural Studies for the End of the Century
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Anthropology, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, Philosophy of Science, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies