Deciphering Science and Technology: The Social Relations of Expertise - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0333465547 ISBN 13: 9780333465547

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 1990

Riassunto

As science and technology have pervaded modern life to an ever greater degree, social scientists have been led to find questions of the causes and consequences of 'expert' knowledge arising in places that would have been felt unlikely hitherto.

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Contenuti

Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction: The Centrality of Science and Technology; I.Varcoe & S.Yearley - The State, War and Technical Innovation in Great Britain, 1930-50: The Contrasts of Military and Civil Industry; D.Edgerton - Who Gets Science Education; A.Kelly - Conceptions of British Employment Re-structuring in the 1980s; A.Pollert - Unhealthy Displays? Trade Unions, VDUs and the Social Construction of a Health Hazard; P.Glasner & D.Travis - New Technology and the Self-Disciplined Worker in the Insurance Industry; D.Knights & A.Sturdy - The Automation of Grain Terminal Elevators in Canada; J.Novek - The Incorporation of Biotechnology into Plant Breeding in Cambridge; A.Webster - The Story of r2: Interest, Enrolment and Analogy in a Public Health Debate; M.Bartley - The Conduct of Medical Consultations in an Echocardiography Unit; J.Daly, I.McDonald & E.Willis - Index

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 1990
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0333465547
• ISBN 13: 9780333465547
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 267
• Redattore: McNeil Maureen, Varcoe Ian, Yearley Steven
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