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Science and Democracy - Making Knowledge and Making Power in the Biosciences and Beyond (Paperback)
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Science and Democracy - Making Knowledge and Making Power in the Biosciences and Beyond (Paperback)
Series: Genetics and Society
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In the life sciences and beyond, new developments in science and
technology and the creation of new social orders go hand in hand.
In short, science and society are simultaneously and reciprocally
coproduced and changed. Scientific research not only produces new
knowledge and technological systems but also constitutes new forms
of expertise and contributes to the emergence of new modes of
living and new forms of exchange. These dynamic processes are
tightly connected to significant redistributions of wealth and
power, and they sometimes threaten and sometimes enhance democracy.
Understanding these phenomena poses important intellectual and
normative challenges: neither traditional social sciences nor
prevailing modes of democratic governance have fully grappled with
the deep and growing significance of knowledge-making in
twenty-first century politics and markets. Building on new work in
science and technology studies (STS), this book advances the
systematic analysis of the coproduction of knowledge and power in
contemporary societies. Using case studies in the new life
sciences, supplemented with cases on informatics and other topics
such as climate science, this book presents a theoretical framing
of coproduction processes while also providing detailed empirical
analyses and nuanced comparative work. Science and Democracy:
Knowledge as Wealth and Power in the Biosciences and Beyond will be
interesting for students of sociology, science & technology
studies, history of science, genetics, political science, and
public administration.
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