Science, Technology, and Democracy

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 the scientific communities on issues of clear public relevance.

Info autore

Daniel Lee Kleinman , currently Associate Professor of Rural Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was formerly Associate Professor of Sociology in the School of History, Technology, and Society at Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the author of Politics on the Endless Frontier: Postwar Research Policy in the United States.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Daniel Lee Kleinman
• Con la collaborazione di: Daniel Lee Kleinman (Editore)
• Editore: State University of New York Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 28.09.2000
• EAN: 9780791447086
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-4708-6
• Pagine: 184
• Dimensioni: 154 mm x 228 mm x 11 mm
• Serie: Suny Series, Science, Technolo; Suny Science, Technology, and
• Categorie: Libri scolastici > Didattica > Formazione professionale; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche