Controversies In Science And Technology

Author : Hugo Tristram Engelhardt (Jr.),Arthur L. Caplan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1987-04-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521275601

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Scientific Controversies by Hugo Tristram Engelhardt (Jr.),Arthur L. Caplan Pdf

This collection of essays examines the ways in which disputes and controversies about the application of scientific knowledge are resolved. Four concrete examples of public controversy are considered in detail: the efficacy of Laetrile, the classification of homosexuality as a disease, the setting of safety standards in the workplace, and the utility of nuclear energy as a source of power. The essays in this volume show that debates about these cases are not confined to matters of empirical fact. Rather, as is seen with most scientific and technical controversies, they focus on and are structured by complex ethical, economic, and political interests. Drs. Engelhardt and Caplan have brought together a distinguished group of scholars from the sciences and humanities, who sketch a theory of scientific controversy and attempt to provide recommendations about the ways in which both scientists and the public ought to seek more informed resolutions of highly contentious issues in science and technology. Scientific Controversies is offered as a contribution to the better understanding of the roles of both science and nonscientific interests in disputes and controversies pertaining to science and technology.

Author : Daniel Lee Kleinman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:427480220

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Controversies in Science & Technology by Daniel Lee Kleinman Pdf

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on the Science of Science Communication: A Research Agenda
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309451055

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Communicating Science Effectively by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on the Science of Science Communication: A Research Agenda Pdf

Science and technology are embedded in virtually every aspect of modern life. As a result, people face an increasing need to integrate information from science with their personal values and other considerations as they make important life decisions about medical care, the safety of foods, what to do about climate change, and many other issues. Communicating science effectively, however, is a complex task and an acquired skill. Moreover, the approaches to communicating science that will be most effective for specific audiences and circumstances are not obvious. Fortunately, there is an expanding science base from diverse disciplines that can support science communicators in making these determinations. Communicating Science Effectively offers a research agenda for science communicators and researchers seeking to apply this research and fill gaps in knowledge about how to communicate effectively about science, focusing in particular on issues that are contentious in the public sphere. To inform this research agenda, this publication identifies important influences â€" psychological, economic, political, social, cultural, and media-related â€" on how science related to such issues is understood, perceived, and used.

Author : Thomas Brante,Steve Fuller,Professor of Sociology Steve Fuller, PhD,William Lynch
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791414736

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Controversial Science by Thomas Brante,Steve Fuller,Professor of Sociology Steve Fuller, PhD,William Lynch Pdf

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.

Author : H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.,Arthur L. Caplan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 639 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1987-03-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521255651

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Scientific Controversies by H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.,Arthur L. Caplan Pdf

This collection of essays examines the ways in which disputes and controversies about the application of scientific knowledge are resolved. Four concrete examples of public controversy are considered in detail: the efficacy of Laetrile, the classification of homosexuality as a disease, the setting of safety standards in the workplace, and the utility of nuclear energy as a source of power. The essays in this volume show that debates about these cases are not confined to matters of empirical fact. Rather, as is seen with most scientific and technical controversies, they focus on and are structured by complex ethical, economic, and political interests. Drs. Engelhardt and Caplan have brought together a distinguished group of scholars from the sciences and humanities, who sketch a theory of scientific controversy and attempt to provide recommendations about the ways in which both scientists and the public ought to seek more informed resolutions of highly contentious issues in science and technology. Scientific Controversies is offered as a contribution to the better understanding of the roles of both science and nonscientific interests in disputes and controversies pertaining to science and technology.

Author : Daniel Lee Kleinman,Abby J. Kinchy,Jo Handelsman
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005-04-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 0299203905

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Controversies in Science and Technology by Daniel Lee Kleinman,Abby J. Kinchy,Jo Handelsman Pdf

Written for general readers, teachers, journalists, and policymakers, this volume explores four controversial topics in science and technology, with commentaries from experts in such fields as sociology, religion, law, ethics, and politics: * Antibiotics and Resistance: the science, the policy debates, and perspectives from a microbiologist, a veterinarian, and an M.D. * Genetically Modified Maize and Gene Flow: the science of genetic modification, protecting genetic diversity, agricultural biotech vesus the environment, corporate patents versus farmers' rights * Hormone Replacement Theory and Menopause: overview of the Women's Health Initiative, history of hormone replacement therapy, the medicalization of menopause, hormone replacement therapy and clinical trials * Smallpox: historical and medical overview of smallpox, government policies for public health, the Emergency Health Powers Act, public resistance vs. cooperation.

Author : Daniel Lee Kleinman,Karen A. Cloud-Hansen,Jo Handelsman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780199383788

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Controversies in Science and Technology by Daniel Lee Kleinman,Karen A. Cloud-Hansen,Jo Handelsman Pdf

When it comes to any current scientific debate, there are more than two sides to every story. Controversies in Science and Technology, Volume 4 analyzes controversial topics in science and technology-infrastructure, ecosystem management, food security, and plastics and health-from multiple points of view. The editors have compiled thought-provoking essays from a variety of experts from academia and beyond, creating a volume that addresses many of the issues surrounding these scientific debates. Part I of the volume discusses infrastructure, and the real meaning behind the term in today's society. Essays address the central issues that motivate current discussion about infrastructure, including writing on the vulnerability to disasters. Part II, titled "Food Policy," will focus on the challenges of feeding an ever-growing world and the costs of not doing so. Part III features essays on chemicals and environmental health, and works to define "safety" as it relates to today's scientific community. The book's final section examines ecosystem management. In the end, Kleinman, Cloud-Hansen, and Handelsman provide a multifaceted volume that will be appropriate for anyone hoping to understand arguments surrounding several of today's most important scientific controversies.

Author : Daniel Lee Kleinman,Abby J. Kinchy,Jo Handelsman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : OCLC:1028575577

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Controversies in Science and Technology by Daniel Lee Kleinman,Abby J. Kinchy,Jo Handelsman Pdf

Volume 2: This new volume of the Controversies in Science and Technology series explores five of the most controversial scientific issues facing our world today. This collection of essays addresses stem cell research, information technology, space exploration, global warming, and biology and gender. These issues challenge our beliefs about each other, our planet, societal fairness, the concept of "knowing," and the definition of human life itself. - Publisher.

Author : Erminia Pedretti,Ana Maria Navas Iannini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780429017759

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Controversy in Science Museums by Erminia Pedretti,Ana Maria Navas Iannini Pdf

Controversy in Science Museums focuses on exhibitions that approach sensitive or controversial topics. With a keen sense of past and current practices, Pedretti and Navas Iannini examine and re-imagine how museums and science centres can create exhibitions that embrace criticality and visitor agency. Drawing on international case studies and voices from visitors and museum professionals, as well as theoretical insights about scientific literacy and science communication, the authors explore the textured notion of controversy and the challenges and opportunities practitioners may encounter as they plan for and develop controversial science exhibitions. They assert that science museums can no longer serve as mere repositories for objects or sites for transmitting facts, but that they should also become spaces for conversations that are inclusive, critical, and socially responsible. Controversy in Science Museums provides an invaluable resource for museum professionals who are interested in creating and hosting controversial exhibitions, and for scholars and students working in the fields of museum studies, science communication, and social studies of science. Anyone wishing to engage in an examination and critique of the changing roles of science museums will find this book relevant, timely, and thought provoking.

Author : Marcelo Dascal,Victor D. Boantza
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789027282545

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Controversies Within the Scientific Revolution by Marcelo Dascal,Victor D. Boantza Pdf

From the beginning of the Scientific Revolution around the late sixteenth century to its final crystallization in the early eighteenth century, hardly an observational result, an experimental technique, a theory, a mathematical proof, a methodological principle, or the award of recognition and reputation remained unquestioned for long. The essays collected in this book examine the rich texture of debates that comprised the Scientific Revolution from which the modern conception of science emerged. Were controversies marginal episodes, restricted to certain fields, or were they the rule in the majority of scientific domains? To what extent did scientific controversies share a typical pattern, which distinguished them from debates in other fields? Answers to these historical and philosophical questions are sought through a close attention to specific controversies within and across the changing scientific disciplines as well as across the borders of the natural and the human sciences, philosophy, theology, and technology.

Author : David Harker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107069619

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Creating Scientific Controversies by David Harker Pdf

This is the first book-length introductory study of the concept of a created scientific controversy, providing a comprehensive and wide-ranging analysis for students of philosophy of science, environmental and health sciences, and social and natural sciences.

Author : Annette Leßmöllmann,Marcelo Dascal,Thomas Gloning
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110393217

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Science Communication by Annette Leßmöllmann,Marcelo Dascal,Thomas Gloning Pdf

Science is an essentially cooperative, critical, and dynamic enterprise. Were it not for the continuous creation and improvement of special forms of communication, argumentation, and innovation, all of them suitable for its three key features, scientific knowledge and progress could hardly be achieved. The aim of this volume is to explore the nature of science communication in its several functions, modalities, combinations, and evolution - past, present, and future. One of our objectives is to provide an overview of the richness and variety of elements that take part in performing the complex tasks and fulfilling the functions of science communication. The overall structure and criteria for the choice of topics: 1. The origin and target of a communication episode - its source(s) and addressee(s). 2. The media of communication employed. 3. The thematic field and content types. 4. The distinction between aspects of science communication (e.g., media, texttypes, domains, communicative maxims) and aspects of research on science communication (e.g., the contribution of different research traditions to the understanding of science communication). 5. The history and dynamics of science communication (past, present, and future), both in an empirical perspective (e.g., the development of the research article) and a systematic perspective (e.g., what are basic types and mechanisms of change in science communication).

Author : Karen F. Greif,Jon F. Merz
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007-02-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262262941

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Current Controversies in the Biological Sciences by Karen F. Greif,Jon F. Merz Pdf

In recent years, advances in biological science and technology have outpaced policymakers' attempts to deal with them. Current Controversies in the Biological Sciences examines the ways in which the federal government uses scientific information in reaching policy decisions, providing case studies of the interactions between science and government on different biomedical, biological, and environmental issues. These case studies document a broad range of complex issues in science policy—from the Human Genome Project to tobacco regulation—and provide an accessible overview of both the science behind the issues and the policy-making process. The cases illustrate the different ways in which science and politics intersect in policy decisions, as well as the different forms policy itself may take—including not only regulatory action but the lack of regulation. Among the topics examined are public and private research funding, as seen in gene patenting; reluctance to regulate even when a product has been proven unhealthy, as in the case of tobacco; a comparison of U.S. and international policy responses to genetically modified organisms; and the competing interests at play in air pollution policy. Each chapter includes shorter side essays on related topics (for example, essays on issues raised by the SARS epidemic accompany the detailed case study of the public health response to the anthrax-laced mail received in the weeks after 9/11). This clear and readable introduction to controversial issues in the biological sciences will be a valuable resource for students of science policy and bioethics and for professionals in industry, government, and nongovernmental organizations who need background on emerging issues in the biological sciences.

Author : Dorothy Nelkin
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004017443

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Controversy by Dorothy Nelkin Pdf

Updated and revised to fit the controversial issues of the nineties, the third edition of Dorothy Nelkin's Controversy addresses such hot topics as the diet-cancer dispute, animal rights, oil spill cleanups, genetic testing, surrogacy, and AIDS testing. Nelkin and a distinguished list of contributors explore the political values and beliefs that underlie decisions about science and technology. The rhetoric and tone have shifted, as have the controversies, to a growing expression of moral and ideological sentiments. How is public policy formulated in the absence of clear-cut agreement on goals? What ethical conundrums are involved when conflicting values are at stake? By studying the controversies presented here, students capture a sense of the reasoning that motivates public agencies, government officials, scientists, and protest groups. They also have the opportunity to realistically understand science and technical policy, its social and political context, and its impact on the individuals, on particular communities, and on the general public. Controversy will prove stimulating reading for students and professionals in science and technology studies, sociology, political science, health, ethics, and peace and conflict studies.

Author : Dorothy Nelkin
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1979-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : IND:30000046518225

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Controversy by Dorothy Nelkin Pdf

This book of controversies over science and technology describes and analyses the struggles between different perspectives: between those who see technological development as a rational and objective process and those who see this process as primarily political. 'No one has produced a more formidable body of work on technology, politics, and decision-making than Dorothy Nelkin; and I, like many others, have come to look forward to each new instalment. Controversy, a set of case studies edited by Nelkin...easily earns its place on my bookshelf.' -- Knowledge, Vol 1 No 4, June 1980