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The authors demonstrate that the idiom of co-production importantly extends the vocabulary of the traditional social sciences, offering fresh analytic perspectives on the nexus of science, power and culture.
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Sheila Jasanoff
This book offers an empirically detailed, cross-nationally comparative account of the institutional logics and practices through which modern democratic governments construct public reason, that is, the forms of evidence and…
Compares the politics and policy of the life sciences in Britain, Germany, the United States, and in the European Union as a whole. This book shows how public and private…
How can decisionmakers tasked with protecting the environment and public health avoid false or misleading scientific research? Is it possible to give scientists more influence in regulatory processes without ceding…
Issues spawned by the headlong pace of developments in science and technology fill the courts. The realm of the law is sometimes at a loss-constrained by its own assumptions and…
Risk management is one of the most difficult and challenging tasks confronting industrial nations today. This study looks at efforts to regulate carcinogenic chemicals in several Western democracies and finds…
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Sheila Jasanoff (Harvard University)
We live in a world increasingly governed by technology-but at what cost?
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This book looks at flash points in law, politics, ethics, and culture to argue that the claims of rewriting life are overblown.
Nearly 70 years after the dawn of the genetic age, biotechnology, scientists proclaim, is poised to rewrite the book of life. Yet, how far can science go in making sense…
Globalization seen through the lens of environmental governance; analyses of how the global and the local can accommodate one another.
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Dreamscapes of Modernity offers the first book-length treatment of sociotechnical imaginaries, a concept originated by Sheila Jasanoff and developed in close collaboration with Sang-Hyun Kim to describe how visions of…
Handbook of Science and Technology Studies
‘Reframing Rights’ argues that recent developments in law and life sciences should be considered bioconstitutional. It explores the evolving relationship of biology, biotechnology and law through a series of national…
