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Misunderstanding Science?: The Public Reconstruction of Science and Technology

By Alan Irwin , Brian Wynne

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1996
ISBN
0521432685, 9780521432689
LCC
Q175.5 .M58 1996
Open Library ID
OL7740651M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
1 MB (1541575 bytes)
Pages
240\240
DPI
300
Time added
2011-04-18 11:31:18

Description

Misunderstanding Science? offers a challenging new perspective on the public understanding of science. In so doing, it also challenges existing ideas of the nature of science and its relationships with society. Its analysis and case presentation are highly relevant to current concerns over the uptake, authority, and effectiveness of science as expressed, for example, in areas such as education, medical/health practice, risk and the environment, technological innovation. Based on several in-depth case-studies, and informed theoretically by the sociology of scientific knowledge, the book shows how the public understanding of science questions raises issues of the epistemic commitments and institutional structures which constitute modern science. It suggests that many of the inadequacies in the social integration and uptake of science might be overcome if modern scientific institutions were more reflexive and open about the implicit normative commitments embedded in scientific cultures.

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