What is it like to be a scientist at the end of the twentieth
century? How have shifts in power and in assumptions about
knowledge affected scientific practice? Who are the people behind
the new technologies, and how do they address the difficult moral
and professional issues during a time of global change?
"Techno-Scientific Imaginaries" explores these and other important
questions at the approach of the new millennium.
In these penetrating essays, twenty-four distinguished contributors
from a broad range of fields present the voices of the scientists
themselves--through interviews, conversations, and memoirs. We hear
from Lithuanian physicists who discuss science after Communism and
their own fantasies about what Western science is; a
Japanese-American woman struggling with her ambivalence over
designing nuclear weapons; political activists in India who examine
relations among science, environmental politics, and government
ideology in the aftermath of the Bhopal disaster; and many others,
including biologists, physicians, corporate researchers, and
scientists working with virtual reality and other cutting-edge
technologies.
The contributors to this volume are Mario Biagioli, Maria E.
Carson, Gary Lee Downey, Joseph Dumit, Michael M. J. Fischer,
Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Hugh Gusterson, Diana L. L. Hill, James
Holston, Herbert C. Hoover, Jr., Gudrun Klein, Leszek Koczanowicz,
Irene Kuter, Kim Laughlin, Rita Linggood, George E. Marcus, Kathryn
Milun, Livia Polanyi, Christopher Pound, Simon Powell, Paul
Rabinow, Kathleen Stewart, Allucquere Rosanne Stone, and Sharon
Traweek.
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