Handbook of Science and Technology Studies - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803940211 ISBN 13: 9780803940215

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 1994

Synopsis

The Handbook is the most authoritative and extensive resource in the rapidly evolving field of science and technology studies. This masterful volume is the first in over 15 years to define, summarize and synthesize this complex multidisciplinary, international field. Expertly edited with contributions from internationally renowned academics, this volume addresses the crucial contemporary issues - both traditional and non-traditional - in social studies, policy studies, and humanistic studies of science and technology studies.

Containing theoretical essays, extensive literature reviews and detailed case studies of new issues and approaches, the Handbook of Science and Technology Studies clearly sets the standard

About this title

About the Author

Sheila Jasanoff is Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Harvard Kennedy School. A pioneer in her field, she has authored more than 100 articles and chapters and is author or editor of a dozen books, including Controlling Chemicals, The Fifth Branch, Science at the Bar, and Designs on Nature. Her work explores the role of science and technology in the law, politics, and policy of modern democracies, with particular attention to the nature of public reason. She was founding chair of the STS Department at Cornell University and has held numerous distinguished visiting appointments in the US, Europe, and Japan. Jasanoff served on the Board of Directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and as President of the Society for Social Studies of Science. Her grants and awards include a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship and an Ehrenkreuz from the Government of Austria. She holds AB, JD, and PhD degrees from Harvard, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Twente.

Review

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""The book as a whole is an impressive testimony to the vitality of a burgeoning field."" 

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""It reflects the international and interdisciplinary nature of the society. An excellent resource"  """

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""This book is not only an important resource for practitioners, but it also may help to spark the curiosity of those who are outside the field" -- "including scientists and engineers themselves -- and so pull the 'half-seen world' of science and technology studies even more fully into the light of day."" 

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"" This volume represents the social constructivist turn of the field. It is evident that social constructivism made a major impact on the field during the 1970s and 1980s. The diverse papers included here highlight the role of ethnography in STS. In addition, we are exposed to new perspectives of the multicultural and gendered nature of knowledge production." """

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""The long-awaited Handbook of Science and Technology Studies" "sponsored by the Society for Social Studies of Science is a truly substantial work, both in size and in the breadth of its many contributions. It is a rich and valuable guide to much that is transpiring in the field of Science and Technology Studies. In the editors' words, it is 'an unconventional but arresting atlas of the field at a particular moment in its history.'"" 

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" This volume represents the social constructivist turn of the field. It is evident that social constructivism made a major impact on the field during the 1970s and 1980s. The diverse papers included here highlight the role of ethnography in STS. In addition, we are exposed to new perspectives of the multicultural and gendered nature of knowledge production." "

"

"The book as a whole is an impressive testimony to the vitality of a burgeoning field.""

"

"It reflects the international and interdisciplinary nature of the society. An excellent resource""

"

"This volume represents the social constructivist turn of the field. It is evident that social constructivism made a major impact on the field during the 1970s and 1980s. The diverse papers included here highlight the role of ethnography in STS. In addition, we are exposed to new perspectives of the multicultural and gendered nature of knowledge production.""

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"This book is not only an important resource for practitioners, but it also may help to spark the curiosity of those who are outside the field"-"including scientists and engineers themselves-and so pull the 'half-seen world' of science and technology studies even more fully into the light of day.""

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0803940211
• ISBN 13: 9780803940215
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 828
• Editor: Jasanoff Sheila, Markle Gerald E., Petersen James C., Pinch Trevor J.