Misunderstanding Science? ：The Public Reconstruction of Science and Technology

Publication subTitle ：The Public Reconstruction of Science and Technology

Author： Alan Irwin; Brian Wynne  

Publisher： Cambridge University Press‎

Publication year： 2004

E-ISBN: 9780511882104

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780521525206

Subject： N05 natural science and other disciplines of relationship

Keyword： 自然科学史

Language： ENG

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Misunderstanding Science?

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Misunderstanding Science? offers a challenging new perspective on the public understanding of science. In so doing, it also challenges existing ideas of the nature of science and its relationships with society. Its analysis and case presentation are highly relevant to current concerns over the uptake, authority, and effectiveness of science as expressed, for example, in areas such as education, medical/health practice, risk and the environment, technological innovation. Based on several in-depth case-studies, and informed theoretically by the sociology of scientific knowledge, the book shows how the public understanding of science questions raises issues of the epistemic commitments and institutional structures which constitute modern science. It suggests that many of the inadequacies in the social integration and uptake of science might be overcome if modern scientific institutions were more reflexive and open about the implicit normative commitments embedded in scientific cultures.

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Cover

Half-title

Title

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Misunderstood misunderstandings: social identities and public uptake of science

2 Science and Hell's kitchen: the local understanding of hazard issues

Citizens, sources, and local environmental threats

Knowledges in context; information sources and local needs

3 Disembodied knowledge? Making sense of medical science

The (disembodied) account from the sciences

'Understanding science' as an active process

Reading the representations of CHD risk

Medical science and embodied knowledge: the meaning of an asymptomatic condition

Implicit knowledge

Heredity and CHD: understandings of genetic inheritance

Conclusion: situated knowledges

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

NOTES

4 Now you see it, now you don't: mediating science and managing uncertainty in reproductive medicine

Rendering visible

Looking at embryos

Perceptions of acceptable risk

Ultrasound images of the fetus

Conclusion

NOTES

REFERENCES

5 Ignoring science: discourses of ignorance in the public understanding of science

Introduction

Knowledge description approaches

Ignorance

Notes on method and analysis

Discourses of ignorance

Concluding remarks

NOTES

6 Insiders and outsiders: identifying experts on home ground

Expertise in context

Locality and identity: Manx and comeover

Ethnography and science: some methodological questions

Local knowledges: identifying local expertise

Common sense: drawing the lines

Insiders and outsiders: identifying the margins of science

Tracing expertise through institutions

Crossing boundaries: local knowledge and the outside world

Conclusions

NOTES

REFERENCES

7 Authorising science: public understanding of science in museums

Contexts and visions of 'public understanding of science'

A new vision? Food for Thought

Authors, resistances, and ghost-writers

Reading 'science'?

Conclusions

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

NOTES

8 Nature's advocates: putting science to work in environmental organizations

Environmentalism and the public's understanding of science

Ambivalent responses to scientific authority

Contrasting strategies for science as nature's advocate

The practicalities of a scientific ethos

Environmentalism without a scientific ancestry

Conditioning the way science is put to work

Conclusion

NOTES

9 Proteins, plants, and currents: rediscovering science in Britain

Introduction

Models of science

Minding the gap

Case-studies

Modelling science

The case of disappearing science: the conceptual level

Commercialisation and science

The case of disappearing science: the commercial level

Rediscovering science

REFERENCES

Conclusions

Notes on contributors

Select bibliography

Index

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