Science and Technology Handbook

Preface xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
Edward J. Hackett, Olga Amsterdamska, Michael Lynch, and Judy Wajcman

I Ideas and Perspectives 9
Michael Lynch
1 Science and Technology Studies and an Engaged Program 13
Sergio Sismondo

2 The Social Study of Science before Kuhn 33
Stephen Turner

3 Political Theory in Science and Technology Studies 63
Charles Thorpe

4 A Textbook Case Revisited—Knowledge as a Mode of Existence 83
Bruno Latour

5 The Social Worlds Framework: A Theory/Methods Package 113
Adele E. Clarke and Susan Leigh Star

6 Feminist STS and the Sciences of the Artificial 139
Lucy Suchman

7 Technological Determinism Is Dead; Long Live Technological
Determinism 165
Sally Wyatt

8 Pramoedya’s Chickens: Postcolonial Studies of Technoscience 181
Warwick Anderson and Vincanne Adams
II Practices, People, and Places 205
Olga Amsterdamska

9 Argumentation in Science: The Cross-Fertilization of Argumentation Theory
and Science Studies 211
William Keith and William Rehg

10 STS and Social Epistemology of Science 241
Miriam Solomon

11 Cognitive Studies of Science and Technology 259
Ronald N. Giere

12 Give Me a Laboratory and I Will Raise a Discipline: The Past, Present, and
Future Politics of Laboratory Studies in STS 279
Park Doing

13 Social Studies of Scientific Imaging and Visualization 297
Regula Valérie Burri and Joseph Dumit

14 Messy Shapes of Knowledge—STS Explores Informatization, New Media, and
Academic Work 319
The Virtual Knowledge Studio: Paul Wouters, Katie Vann, Andrea Scharnhorst,
Matt Ratto, Iina Hellsten, Jenny Fry, and Anne Beaulieu

15 Sites of Scientific Practice: The Enduring Importance of Place 353
Christopher R. Henke and Thomas F. Gieryn

16 Scientific Training and the Creation of Scientific Knowledge 377
Cyrus C. M. Mody and David Kaiser

17 The Coming Gender Revolution in Science 403
Henry Etzkowitz, Stefan Fuchs, Namrata Gupta, Carol Kemelgor,
and Marina Ranga
III Politics and Publics 429
Edward J. Hackett

18 Science and the Modern World 433
Steven Shapin

19 Science and Public Participation 449
Massimiano Bucchi and Federico Neresini
viii Contents

20 Science, Technology, and Social Movements 473
David Hess, Steve Breyman, Nancy Campbell, and Brian Martin

21 Patient Groups and Health Movements 499
Steven Epstein

22 User-Technology Relationships: Some Recent Developments 541
Nelly Oudshoorn and Trevor Pinch

23 STS and Ethics: Implications for Engineering Ethics 567
Deborah G. Johnson and Jameson M. Wetmore

24 STS Perspectives on Scientific Governance 583
Alan Irwin

25 Expertise: From Attribute to Attribution and Back Again? 609
Robert Evans and Harry Collins
IV Institutions and Economics 631
Olga Amsterdamska

26 The Commercialization of Science and the Response of STS 635
Philip Mirowski and Esther-Mirjam Sent

27 Organizational Contexts of Science: Boundaries and Relationships between
University and Industry 691
Jennifer L. Croissant and Laurel Smith-Doerr

28 Science, Technology, and the Military: Priorities, Preoccupations, and
Possibilities 719
Brian Rappert, Brian Balmer, and John Stone

29 The Right Patients for the Drug: Pharmaceutical Circuits and the
Codification of Illness 741
Andrew Lakoff

30 Making Order: Law and Science in Action 761
Sheila Jasanoff

31 Knowledge and Development 787
Susan E. Cozzens, Sonia Gatchair, Kyung-Sup Kim, Gonzalo Ordóñez, and
Anupit Supnithadnaporn
Contents ix
V Emergent Technosciences 813
Judy Wajcman

32 Genomics, STS, and the Making of Sociotechnical Futures 817
Adam M. Hedgecoe and Paul A. Martin

33 Emerging Medical Technologies 841
Linda F. Hogle

34 Biomedical Technologies, Cultural Horizons, and Contested Boundaries 875
Margaret Lock

35 STS and Social Studies of Finance 901
Alex Preda

36 Nature and the Environment in Science and Technology Studies 921
Steven Yearley

37 Bridging STS and Communication Studies: Scholarship on Media and
Information Technologies 949
Pablo Boczkowski and Leah A. Lievrouw

38 Anticipatory Governance of Nanotechnology: Foresight, Engagement, and
Integration 979
Daniel Barben, Erik Fisher, Cynthia Selin, and David H. Guston
List of Contributors 1001
Name Index 1015
Subject Index 1047

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