States of Knowledge: The Co-Production of Science and the Social Order

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Sheila Jasanoff
Routledge, Jul 31, 2004 - Social Science - 336 pages

Notes on contributors Acknowledgements 1. The Idiom of Co-production Sheila Jasanoff 2. Ordering Knowledge, Ordering Society Sheila Jasanoff 3. Climate Science and the Making of a Global Political Order Clark A. Miller 4. Co-producing CITES and the African Elephant Charis Thompson 5. Knowledge and Political Order in the European Environment Agency Claire Waterton and Brian Wynne 6. Plants, Power and Development: Founding the Imperial Department of Agriculture for the West Indies, 1880-1914 William K. Storey 7. Mapping Systems and Moral Order: Constituting property in genome laboratories Stephen Hilgartner 8. Patients and Scientists in French Muscular Dystrophy Research Vololona Rabeharisoa and Michel Callon 9. Circumscribing Expertise: Membership categories in courtroom testimony Michael Lynch 10. The Science of Merit and the Merit of Science: Mental order and social order in early twentieth-century France and America John Carson 11. Mysteries of State, Mysteries of Nature: Authority, knowledge and expertise in the seventeenth century Peter Dear 12. Reconstructing Sociotechnical Order: Vannevar Bush and US science policy Michael Aaron Dennis 13. Science and the Political Imagination in Contemporary Democracies Yaron Ezrah 14. Afterword Sheila Jasanoff References Index

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Notes on contributors
Ordering Knowledge Ordering Society
Climate Science and the Making of a Global Political Order
CoProducing CITES and the African Elephant
Knowledge and Political Order in the European Environment Agency
Plants Power and Development Founding the Imperial Department
Mapping Systems and Moral Order Constituting Property in Genome
Patients and Scientists in French Muscular Dystrophy Research
Circumscribing Expertise Membership Categories in Courtroom Testimony
The Science of Merit and the Merit of Science Mental Order and Social
Mysteries of State Mysteries of Nature Authority Knowledge and Expertise
Reconstructing Sociotechnical Order Vannevar Bush and US Science Policy
Science and the Political Imagination in Contemporary Democracies
Afterword
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