States of Knowledge: The Co-Production of Science and the Social Order

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Sheila Jasanoff
Routledge, Jul 31, 2004 - Political Science - 336 pages

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

 

Contents

Sheila Jasanoff
1
Sheila Jasanoff
13
Clark A Miller
46
Charis Thompson
67
Claire Waterton and Brian Wynne
87
founding the Imperial Department of Agriculture for the West Indies 18801914 William K Storey ...
109
constituting property in genome laboratories Stephen Hilgartner
131
Vololona Rabeharisoa and Michel Callon
142
mental order and social order in early twentiethcentury France and America John Carson ...
181
authority knowledge and expertise in the seventeenth century Peter Dear ...
206
Vannevar Bush and US science policy Michael Aaron Dennis
225
Yaron Ezrahi
254
Sheila Jasanoff
274
References
283
Index
307
Copyright

membership categories in courtroom testimony Michael Lynch
161

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Bibliographic information

TitleStates of Knowledge: The Co-Production of Science and the Social Order
International Library of Sociology
EditorSheila Jasanoff
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherRoutledge, 2004
ISBN1134328346, 9781134328345
Length336 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Political Science / Public Policy / Science & Technology Policy
Science / Philosophy & Social Aspects
Social Science / Sociology / General
Social Science / Technology Studies
  
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