Social Studies of Science and Technology: Looking Back, Ahead

by Bernward Joerges, H. Nowotny (Editor)

This volume brings together contributions that resemble spotlights thrown on the past twenty-five years of science and technology studies. It covers a broad range: history of science; science and politics; science and contemporary democracy; science and the public; science and the constitution; science and metaphors; and science and modernity and provides a critical overview of how the field of science and technology studies has emerged and developed.

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First published September 30, 2003