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The New Politics of Science - Softcover

Dickson, David

 
9780226147635: The New Politics of Science
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226147630 ISBN 13: 9780226147635
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 1993

Inhaltsangabe

How science "gets done" in today's world has profound political repercussions, since scientific knowledge, through its technical applications, has become an important source of both economic and military power. The increasing dependence of scientific research on funding from business and the military has made questions about the access to and control of scientific knowledge a central issue in today's politics of science.

In The New Politics of Science, David Dickson points out that "the scientific community has its own internal power structures, its elites, its hierarchies, its ideologies, its sanctioned norms of social behavior, and its dissenting groups. And the more that science, as a social practice, forms an integral part of the economic structures of the society in which it is imbedded, the more the boundaries and differences between the two dissolve. Groups inside the scientific community, for example, will use groups outside the community—and vice versa—to achieve their own political ends." In this edition, Dickson has included a new preface commenting on the continuing and increasing influence of industrial and defense interests on American scientific research in the 1980s.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

David Dickson, former editor of New Scientist, has also served as European correspondent for Science and Washington Correspondent for Nature. He is the author of The Politics of Alternative Technology, and many articles appearing in The Economist, The Nation, Science for the People and Nature.

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In The New Politics of Science, David Dickson points out that 'the scientific community has its own internal power structures, its elites, its hierarchies, its ideologies, its sanctioned norms of social behavior, and its dissenting groups. And the more that science, as a social practice, forms an integral part of the economic structures of the society in which it is embedded, the more the boundaries and differences between the two dissolve. Groups inside the scientific community-and vice versa-to achieve their own political ends.' In this edition, Dickson has included a new preface commenting on the continuing and increasing influence of industrial and defense interests on American scientific research in the 1980s.

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1993
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226147630
ISBN 13 
9780226147635
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
416
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