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October 2007
7 x 9, 1080 pp., 11 illus.
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978-0-262-08364-5

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The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, Third Edition
Edited by Edward J. Hackett, Olga Amsterdamska, Michael Lynch and Judy Wajcman

Preface
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Acknowledgmentsxiii
Introduction
Edward J. Hackett, Olga Amsterdamska, Michael Lynch and Judy Wajcman
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1
IIdeas and Perspectives
Michael Lynch
9
1Science and Technology Studies and an Engaged Program
Sergio Sismondo
13
2The Social Study of Science before Kuhn
Stephen Turner
33
3Political Theory in Science and Technology Studies
Charles Thorpe
63
4A Textbook Case Revisited—Knowledge as a Mode of Existence
Bruno Latour
83
5The Social Worlds Framework
A Theory/Methods Package
Adele E. Clarke and Susan Leigh Star
113
6Feminist STS and the Sciences of the Artificial
Lucy Suchman
139
7Technological Determinism Is Dead; Long Live Technological Determinism
Sally Wyatt
165
8Pramoedya's Chickens
Postcolonial Studies of Technoscience
Warwick Anderson and Vincanne Adams
181
IIPractices, People, and Places
Olga Amsterdamska
205
9Argumentation in Science
The Cross-Fertilization of Argumentation Theory and Science Studies
William Keith and William Rehg
211
10STS and Social Epistemology of Science
Miriam Solomon
241
11Cognitive Studies of Science
Ronald N. Giere
259
12Give Me a Laboratory and I Will Raise a Discipline
The Past, Present, and Future Politics of Laboratory Studies in STS
Park Doing
279
13Social Studies of Scientific Imaging and Visualization
Regula Valérie Burri and Joseph Dumit
297
14Messy Shapes of Knowledge—STS Explores Informatization, New Media, and Academic Work
The Virtual Knowledge Studio:
Paul Wouters, Katie Vann, Andrea Scharnhorst, Matt Ratto, Iina Hellsten, Jenny Fry and Anne Beaulieu
319
15Sites of Scientific Practice
The Enduring Importance of Place
Christopher R. Henke and Thomas F. Gieryn
353
16Scientific Training and the Creation of Scientific Knowledge
Cyrus C. M. Mody and David Kaiser
377
17The Coming Gender Revolution in Science
Henry Etzkowitz, Stefan Fuchs, Namrata Gupta, Carol Kemelgor and Marina Ranga
403
IIIPolitics and Publics
Edward J. Hackett
429
18Science in the Modern World
Steve Shapin
433
19Science and Public Participation
Massimiano Bucchi and Federico Neresini
449
20Science, Technology, and Social Movements
David J. Hess, Steve Breyman, Nancy Campbell and Brian Martin
473
21Patient Groups and Health Movements
Steven Epstein
499
22User-Technology Relationships
Some Recent Developments
Nelly Oudshoorn and Trevor Pinch
541
23STS and Ethics
Implications for Engineering Ethics
Deborah G. Johnson and Jameson M. Wetmore
567
24STS Perspectives on Scientific Governance
Alan Irwin
583
25Expertise
From Attribute to Attribution and Back Again?
Robert Evans and Harry Collins
609
IVInstitutions and Economics
Olga Amsterdamska
631
26The Commercialization of Science and the Response of STS
Philip Mirowski and Esther-Mirjam Sent
635
27Organizational Contexts of Science
Boundaries and Relationships between University and Industry
Jennifer L. Croissant and Laurel Smith-Doerr
691
28Science, Technology, and the Military
Priorities, Preoccupations, and Possibilities
Brian Rappert, Brian Balmer and John Stone
719
29The Right Patient for the Drug
Pharmaceutical Circuits and the Codification of Illness
Andrew Lakoff
741
30Making Order
Law and Science in Action
Sheila Jasanoff
761
31Knowledge and Development
Susan E. Cozzens, Sonia Gatchair, Kyung-Sup Kim, Gonzalo Ordóñez and Anupit Supnithadnaporn
787
VEmergent Technosciences
Judy Wajcman
813
32Genomics, STS, and the Making of Sociotechnical Futures
Adam M. Hedgecoe and Paul A. Martin
817
33Emerging Medical Technologies
Linda F. Hogle
841
34Biomedical Technologies, Cultural Horizons, and Contested Boundaries
Margaret Lock
875
35STS and Social Studies of Finance
Alex Preda
901
36Nature and the Environment in Science and Technology Studies
Steven Yearley
921
37Bridging STS and Communication Studies
Scholarship on Media and Information Technologies
Pablo Boczkowski and Leah A. Lievrouw
949
38Anticipatory Governance of Nanotechnology
Foresight, Engagement, and Integration
Daniel Barben, Erik Fisher, Cynthia Selin and David H. Guston
979
List of Contributors
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Name Index
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Subject Index1047
 
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