Deciphering Science & Technology : The Social Relations of Expertise

orig.boards Minor rubbing, slight page-edge soil, VG., dustwrapper Textual tables 22x14cm, xi,256 pp, Series: Explorations in Sociology, 27. Contains 9 papers. Includes: D. Edgerton "The State, War & Technical Innovation in Great Britain, 1930-50: The Contrasts of Military & Civil Industry"; A. Kelly "Who Gets Science Education?"; A. Pollert "Conceptions of British Employment Restructuring in the 1980s"; P. Glasner & D. Travis "Unhealthy Displays? Trade Unions, VDUs & the Social Construction of a Health Hazard"; D. Knights & A. Sturdy "New Technology & the Self- Disciplined Worker in the Insurance Industry"; J. Novek "The Automation of Grain-terminal Elevators in Canada"; A. Webster "The Incorporation of Biotechnology into Plant-breeding in Cambridge"; M. Bartley "The Story of r2: Interest,Enrolment & Analogy in a Public Health Debate"; J. Daly, et al: "The Conduct of Medical Consultations in an Echocardiography Unit". Minor rubbing, slight page-edge soil, VG., dustwrapper.