Sheila Jasanoff

Science and Public Reason

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers an empirically detailed, cross-nationally comparative account of the institutional logics and practices through which modern democratic governments construct public reason, that is, the forms of evidence and argument designed to persuade publics that legal and policy decisions are founded on reliable knowledge and expertise.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 165mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 607g
• ISBN-13: 9780415524865
• ISBN-10: 0415524865
• Artikelnr.: 35111361

Autorenporträt

Sheila Jasanoff is Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. A pioneer in legal and political studies of science and technology, she has written many widely cited articles and chapters and is author or editor of a dozen books, including The Fifth Branch (Harvard University Press), Science at the Bar (Harvard University Press), and Designs on Nature (Princeton University Press).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Public Reason 2. Product, Process, or Programme 3. In the Democracies of
DNA 4. Restoring Reason 5. Image and Imagination 6. Contested Boundaries in
Policy-Relevant Science 7. The Songlines of Risk 8. Judgment under Siege 9.
Technologies of Humility 10. What Judges Should Know about the Sociology of
Science 11. Expert Games in Silicone Gel Breast Implant Litigation 12. The
Eye of Everyman 13. In a Constitutional Moment: Science and Social Order at
the Millennium