States of Knowledge

The Co-Production of Science and the Social Order

Sheila Jasanoff

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2004
• eBook ISBN:
  9781134328338
• Print ISBN:
  9780415403290
• Subtopic: Science & Technology Public Policy

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

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Notes on contributors
• Acknowledgements
• 1. The idiom of co-production
• 2. Ordering knowledge, ordering society
• 3. Climate science and the making of a global political order
• 4. Co-producing CITES and the African elephant
• 5. Knowledge and political order in the European Environment Agency
• 6. Plants, power and development: founding the Imperial Department of Agriculture for the West Indies, 1880–1914
• 7. Mapping systems and moral order: constituting property in genome laboratories
• 8. Patients and scientists in French muscular dystrophy research
• 9. Circumscribing expertise: membership categories in courtroom testimony
• 10. The science of merit and the merit of science: mental order and social order in early twentieth-century France and America
• 11. Mysteries of state, mysteries of nature: authority, knowledge and expertise in the seventeenth century
• 12. Reconstructing sociotechnical order: Vannevar Bush and US science policy
• 13. Science and the political imagination in contemporary democracies
• 14. Afterword
• References
• Index