Searching for Science Policy
Author:   Jonathan B. Imber
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
ISBN:  

9780765801630


Pages:   134
Publication Date:   30 September 2002
Format:   Hardback
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Government, business, and universities are producers, consumers, and often arbiters of scientific research and the findings of such research ought to provide an important baseline to the formation of public policy in all sectors. Nevertheless, the communication to the larger public of what scientists do and know is a problem inherent to all democratic societies. Scientific truth cannot be put to a vote and the prerogative of democratic societies to determine what kind of scientific research is funded is often a complex and complicated matter. The contributors to Searching for Science Policy confront these complexities to offer innovative ways of thinking about how the rhetoric and practice of science operates in various institutional contexts.

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Author:   Jonathan B. Imber
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Transaction Publishers
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9780765801630


ISBN 10:   0765801639
Pages:   134
Publication Date:   30 September 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction: What are the Uses and Misuses of Science? Part 1: Policy Uses and Misuses of Science 1. How to Make Millions: Promoting Bad Statistics 2. Exposing Junk Science.com: The Case of the MIT “Study” on the Status of Women 3. American Distortion of Dutch Drug Statistics 4. Science in A Civil Action Part 2: Searching for Science Policy 5. The Use and Abuse of Science in Drug Abuse Control Policy 6. Social Science Findings and the “Family Wars” 7. Environmental Cancer 8. Judicial Fictions: The Supreme Court’s Quest for Good Science

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