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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Daniel Lee Kleinman , Kelly MoorePublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.960kg ISBN: 9780367335939ISBN 10: 036733593 Pages: 518 Publication Date: 18 April 2019 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education , Undergraduate Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Bodies 1. The Emergence, Politics, and Marketplace of Native American DNA 2. Technoscience, Racism, and the Metabolic Syndrome 3. Standards as ‘Weapons of Exclusion’: Ex-Gays and the Materialization of the Male Body 4. Curves to Bodies: The Material life of Graphs Part II: Consuming Technoscience 5. Producing the Consumer of Genetic Testing: The Double-Edged Sword of Empowerment6. The Social Life of DTC Genetics: The Case of 23andMe 7. Cultures of Visibility and the Shape of Social Controversies in the Global High-tech Electronics Industry 8. The Science of Robust Bodies in Neoliberalizing India Part III: Digitization 9. Toward the Inclusion of Pricing Models in Sociotechnical Analyses: The SAE International Technological Protection Measure 10. The Web, Digital Prostheses, and Augmented Subjectivity 11. Political Culture of Gaming in Korea amid Neoliberal Globalization12. Cultural Understandings and Contestations in the Global Governance of Information Technologies and Networks Part IV: Environments 13. Green Energy, Public Engagement and the Politics of Scale 14. Political Scale and Conflicts over Knowledge Production: The Case of Unconventional Natural Gas Development 15. Not Here and Everywhere: The Non-Production of Scientific Knowledge 16. Political Ideology and the Green-Energy Transition in the United States 17. Risk State: Nuclear Politics in an Age of Ignorance 18. From River to Border: The Jordan between Empire and Nation-State 19. State-Environment Relationality: Organic Engines and Governance Regimes Part V: Technology Science Work 20. Invisible Production and the Production of Invisibility: Cleaning, Maintenance, and Mining in the Nuclear Sector 21. Social scientists and humanists in the health research field: A clash of epistemic habitus 22. Women in the Knowledge Economy: Understanding Gender Inequality through the Lens of Collaboration23. The Utilitarian View of Science and the Norms and Practices of Korean Scientists 24. Science as Comfort: The Strategic Use of Science in Post-Disaster Settings Part VI: Rules and Standards 25. Declarative Bodies: Bureaucracy, Ethics and Science-in-the-Making 26. Big Pharma and Big Medicine in the Global Environment 27. On the Effects of E-Government on Political Institutions 28. Science, Social Justice and Post-Belmont Research Ethics: Implications for Regulation and Environmental Health ScienceReviewsThis Handbook shows how power relations are both exercised and disguised through apparently neutral expertise or artefacts, as well as how such linkages are disrupted by subaltern groups. The articles offer STS methods for critical analysis to learn from struggles for social justice and to inform them. - Les Levidow, Editor, Science as Culture This timely set of essays results in much more than a summary of a field; it is an incisive and forward-looking collection, offering a substantive journey into new directions in STS scholarship today. The book will be widely read for its diversity of approaches, yet coherence of chapters that together challenge a rethinking of sociotechnical processes as they unfold in major areas of contemporary public debate. - Laura Mamo, Author of Queering Reproduction Covering the domains of embodiment, consuming technoscience, digitization, environments, science as work, and rules and standards, the Handbook offers a fresh new way of organizing scholarship that investigates the relations between science, technology and society. A valuable addition to the literature, the Handbook highlights cutting edge research areas, paying particular attention to the institutional dimensions of science, cultural contexts and values, and issues of scale. - Kelly Joyce, Drexel University, Director, Center for Science, Technology and Society This Handbook shows how power relations are both exercised and disguised through apparently neutral expertise or artefacts, as well as how such linkages are disrupted by subaltern groups. The articles offer STS methods for critical analysis to learn from struggles for social justice and to inform them. - Les Levidow, Editor, Science as Culture This timely set of essays results in much more than a summary of a field; it is an incisive and forward-looking collection, offering a substantive journey into new directions in STS scholarship today. The book will be widely read for its diversity of approaches, yet coherence of chapters that together challenge a rethinking of sociotechnical processes as they unfold in major areas of contemporary public debate. - Laura Mamo, Author of Queering Reproduction Covering the domains of embodiment, consuming technoscience, digitization, environments, science as work, and rules and standards, the Handbook offers a fresh new way of organizing scholarship that investigates the relations between science, technology and society. A valuable addition to the literature, the Handbook highlights cutting edge research areas, paying particular attention to the institutional dimensions of science, cultural contexts and values, and issues of scale. - Kelly Joyce, Drexel University, Director, Center for Science, Technology and Society Author InformationDaniel Lee Kleinman is Associate Dean for Social Studies at the Graduate School and Professor in the Department of Community and Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Kelly Moore is Associate Professor of Sociology at Loyola University–Chicago. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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