1st Edition

Science and Democracy Making Knowledge and Making Power in the Biosciences and Beyond

Edited By Stephen Hilgartner, Clark Miller, Rob Hagendijk Copyright 2015
268 Pages
by Routledge

266 Pages
by Routledge

266 Pages
by Routledge

In the life sciences and beyond, new developments in science and technology and the creation of new social orders go hand in hand. In short, science and society are simultaneously and reciprocally coproduced and changed. Scientific research not only produces new knowledge and technological systems but also constitutes new forms of expertise and contributes to the emergence of new modes of living... Read more



Introduction  2. Biology Denatured: The public-private lives of lively things  3. Imagining the Unimaginable: Making a synthetic biology revolution plausible  4. Courting Innovation: The constitution(s) of Indian biomedicine  5. Co-Producing Knowledge and Political Legitimacy: Comparing life form patent controversies in Europe and the United States  6. Dispute Settlement and Legitimacy of the World Trade Organization: Adjudicating knowledge claims in the Brazil – USA cotton case  7. Co-Production and Democratizing Global Environmental Expertise: The IPPC and adaptation to climate change  8. Governing Emerging Technologies – The need to think outside the (black) box  9. To Bind or Not Bind? European Ethics as Soft Law  10. Sociotechnical Imaginaries, Digital Health Information, and the Reimaging of the Citizen-Patients  11. Knowledge and Democracy: The epistemics of self-governance  12. Sense and Sensibility: Science, society, and politics as co-production

Biography

Stephen Hilgartner, Clark Miller, Rob Hagendijk