Nico Stehr (editor):
New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Books,
310 Pages, ISBN 0-7658-0172-8, Price: $49,95
Contents
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Preface Nico Stehr |
vii | ||
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Introduction: A World Made of Knowledge Nico Stehr |
ix | ||
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Part I: The Emergence of Knowledge Politics: Origins, Context and Consequences
Introduction, Reiner Grundmann |
3 | ||
| 1. |
Knowledge Policy as the Task of Science: On Ethically Relevant Knowledge of Nature Gernot Böhme |
9 | |
| 2. |
Traditional Knowledge in Modern Society Wolfgang van den Daele |
27 | |
| 3. |
In Search of Vehicles for Knowledge Governance:
On the Need for Institutions that Creatively Destroy
Social Capital Steve Fuller |
41 | |
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Part II: Major Social Institutions and Knowledge Politics
Introduction, Martin Schulte |
79 | ||
| 4. |
The Rising Relevance of Non-Explicit Knowledge under
a New Regime of Knowledge Production Werner Rammert |
85 | |
| 5. |
Policing Society: Genetics, Robotics, Nanotechnology William Leiss |
103 | |
| 6. |
The New Human Zoo Jeffrey Klein |
117 | |
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Part III: Case Studies on the Governance of Knowledge: The Ineffective Governance of Science
J. Rogers Hollingsworth |
133 | ||
| 7. |
Feedback Loops in the Politics of Knowledge
Production Troy Duster |
139 | |
| 8. |
BSE and the Phillips Report: A Cautionary Tale
about the Uptake of 'Risk' Kevin Edson Jones |
161 | |
| 9. |
Subjects of Knowledge: Epistemologies of the Consumer
in the GM Food Debate Javier Lezaun |
187 | |
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Part IV: Issues in Knowledge Politics as a New Political Field
Introduction, Nico Stehr |
207 | ||
| 10. |
The Use of Knowledge in the Legal System: The
Relationship Between Scientific Expertise and Legal
Decisions Martin Schulte |
211 | |
| 11. |
The Innovation Commons Lawrence Lessig |
227 | |
| 12. |
Quasi-Science and the State: "Governing Science" in
Comparative Perspective Stephen Turner |
241 | |
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Concluding Observations: Free Flow of Information
or Embedded Expertise? Notes on the Regulation
of Knowledge Reiner Grundmann |
269 | ||
| Contributors | 287 | ||
| Index | 293 | ||