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Science and citizens : globalization and the challenge of engagement /
Rapid advances and new technologies in the life sciences - such as biotechnologies in health, agricultural and environmental arenas - pose a range of pressing challenges to questions of citizenship. This volume brings together for the first time authors from diverse experiences and analytical tradit...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Zed Books,
2005.
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| Colección: | Claiming citizenship ;
v. 2. |
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: science, citizenship and globalization / Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones and Brian Wynne
- Science and citizenship in a global context / Melissa Leach and Ian Scoones
- The post-normal science of safety / Jerry Ravetz
- Are scientists irrational? Risk assessment in practical reason / Frank Fischer
- Risk as globalizing 'democratic' discourse? Framing subjects and citizens / Brian Wynne
- Knowledge, justice and democracy / Shiv Visvanathan
- Myriad stories: constructing expertise and citizenship in discussions of the new genetics / Richard Tutton, Anne Kerr and Sarah Cunningham-Burley
- AIDS, science and citizenship after apartheid / Steven Robins
- Demystifying occupational and environmental health: experiences from India / Murlidhar V.
- Absentee expertise: science advice for biotechnology regulations in developing countries / Kees Jansen and Esther Roquas
- Interrogating China's biotechnology revolution: contesting dominant science policy cultures in the risk society / James Keeley
- Environmental perception and political mobilization in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo: a comparative analysis / Anglea Alonso and Valeriano Costa
- 'Let them eat cake': GM foods and the democratic imagination / Sheila Jasanoff
- Plant biotechnology and the rights of the poor: a technographic approach / Paul Richards
- Opening up or closing down? analysis, participation and power in the social appraisal of technology / Andy Stirling
- Geographic information systems for participation / John Forrester and Steve Cinderby
- Democratizing science in the UK: the case of radioactive waste management / Jason Chilvers
- Genetic engineering in Aotearoa, New Zealand: a case of opening up or closing down debate? / Audley Genus and Tee Rogers-Hayden
- Exploring food and farming futures in Zimbabwe: a citizens' jury and scenario workshop experiment / Elijah Rusike.