Science and Technology in Society
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Science and Technology in Society

  1. 293 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Science and Technology in Society

About this book

Science and technology profoundly shape the world today. Over the last two centuries, they have become powerful engines of change, accounting for some of the most important forms of human activity, inseparable from social, political and economic life. Analyzing their modes of production, the dynamics of their dissemination, the different forms of their use and opposition to them is a major academic and political challenge.

Science and Technology in Society offers a broad overview of work carried out in France, in the international multi-disciplinary field of Science and Technology Studies (STS), and is the product of a collaboration between some thirty authors. It aims to provide an introduction to this field of research, its development, benefits and the new perspectives that are emerging.

This book presents and discusses studies that are still little-known in France, even though, paradoxically, many researchers from French institutions make decisive contributions to international work in this field.

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Information

Publisher
Wiley-ISTE
Year
2025
Print ISBN
9781789451917
eBook ISBN
9781394388493
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Presentation of the “History of Sciences” Field
  6. Introduction: Science and Technology in Societies
  7. Chapter 1. STS: French History of an (In)discipline
  8. Chapter 2. Laboratory Studies: Beyond a Founding Myth of STS
  9. Chapter 3. STS and Biomedicine
  10. Chapter 4. Science for the People? STS Perspectives on the Question of Science and the Public
  11. Chapter 5. Politics of Expertise
  12. Chapter 6. STS, Industry, and Risk Regulation
  13. Chapter 7. Ignorance Studies in STS
  14. Chapter 8. What the South is Doing to STS: Globalized Technoscience and Decolonization of Knowledge
  15. Chapter 9. Environmental STS
  16. Chapter 10. Soils and Subsoils in STS: Technosciences and Underground Entities
  17. Chapter 11. STS and the Digital
  18. Chapter 12. Maintenance and Repair
  19. List of Authors
  20. Index of Ideas
  21. Index of Names
  22. Eula