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Re-Thinking Science: Knowledge and the Public in an Age of Uncertainty

ISBN: 978-0-7456-2608-6
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288 pages
March 2001, Polity
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Preface.

Chapter 1: The Transformation of Society.

Chapter 2: Beyond Modernity - Breaching the Frontiers.

Chapter 3: The Co-Evolution of Science and Society.

Chapter 4: The Context Speaks Back.

Chapter 5: The Transformation of Knowledge Institutions.

Chapter 6: The Role of Universities in Knowledge Production.

Chapter 7: How does Contextualization Happen?.

Chapter 8: Weakly Contextualized Knowledge.

Chapter 9: Strongly Contextualized Knowledge.

Chapter 10: Contextualization in the Middle Range.

Chapter 11: From Reliable Knowledge to Socially Robust Knowledge.

Chapter 12: The Epistemological Core?.

Chapter 13: Science Moves to the Agora.

Chapter 14: Socially Distributed Expertise.

Chapter 15: Re-Visioning Science.

Chapter 16: Re-Thinking Science is not Science Re-Thought.

References.

Index

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