Controversy
Politics of Technical Decisions
3rd Edition
Published on 20. March 1992
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-0-8039-4466-4 (ISBN)
Description
Praise for previous editions:
"No one has produced a more formidable body of work on technology, politics, and decision making than Dorothy Nelkin; and I, like many others, have come to look forward to each new installment. Controversy, a set of case studies edited by Nelkin... easily earns its place on my bookshelf."
- Knowledge
"[A] marvelous collection of case studies.... I hope that the cases in this book are widely read and discussed by business and government executives as well as students."
- The American Political Science Review
"No one has produced a more formidable body of work on technology, politics, and decision making than Dorothy Nelkin; and I, like many others, have come to look forward to each new installment. Controversy, a set of case studies edited by Nelkin... easily earns its place on my bookshelf."
- Knowledge
"[A] marvelous collection of case studies.... I hope that the cases in this book are widely read and discussed by business and government executives as well as students."
- The American Political Science Review
More details
Series
Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
ISBN-13
978-0-8039-4466-4 (9780803944664)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Previous edition
Book
04/1984
2nd Edition
SAGE Publications Inc
€62.16
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Content
Science, Technology and Personal Conflict - Dorothy Nelkin
Analyzing the Issues
PART ONE: MORAL SENTIMENTS VERSUS THE INSTRUMENTAL VALUES OF SCIENCE
The Fetal Research Dispute - Steven Maynard-Moody
The Animal Rights Controversy - Dorothy Nelkin and James M Jaspar
The Surrogacy Controversy - Nadine Taub
Making and Remaking the Family
PART TWO: POLITICAL PRIORITIES VERSUS ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES
Holes in the Ozone Layer - Michael S Brown and Katherine A Lyon
A Global Environmental Dispute
The Wreck of the Exxon Valdez - Lee Clarke
Three Nuclear Energy Controversies - James M Jasper
PART THREE: ECONOMIC INTERESTS VERSUS CONTROLLING HEALTH RISKS
The Diet-Cancer Debate - Stephen Hilgartner
Setting Occupational Health Standards - Michael S Brown
The Vinyl Chloride Case
Genetic Testing in the Workplace - Elaine Draper
Competing Paradigms of Technological Advance
PART FOUR: INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS VERSUS SOCIAL GOALS
The Creation-Evolution Controversy - Dorothy Nelkin
Testing for AIDS - Sally Guttmacher
The Dilemmas of Controlling Disease
Regulating Recombinant DNA Research and its Applications - Sheldon Krimsky
Analyzing the Issues
PART ONE: MORAL SENTIMENTS VERSUS THE INSTRUMENTAL VALUES OF SCIENCE
The Fetal Research Dispute - Steven Maynard-Moody
The Animal Rights Controversy - Dorothy Nelkin and James M Jaspar
The Surrogacy Controversy - Nadine Taub
Making and Remaking the Family
PART TWO: POLITICAL PRIORITIES VERSUS ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES
Holes in the Ozone Layer - Michael S Brown and Katherine A Lyon
A Global Environmental Dispute
The Wreck of the Exxon Valdez - Lee Clarke
Three Nuclear Energy Controversies - James M Jasper
PART THREE: ECONOMIC INTERESTS VERSUS CONTROLLING HEALTH RISKS
The Diet-Cancer Debate - Stephen Hilgartner
Setting Occupational Health Standards - Michael S Brown
The Vinyl Chloride Case
Genetic Testing in the Workplace - Elaine Draper
Competing Paradigms of Technological Advance
PART FOUR: INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS VERSUS SOCIAL GOALS
The Creation-Evolution Controversy - Dorothy Nelkin
Testing for AIDS - Sally Guttmacher
The Dilemmas of Controlling Disease
Regulating Recombinant DNA Research and its Applications - Sheldon Krimsky