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Science/Technoscience has moved to centre-stage in debates over change, power and justice in twenty-first century societies. This text provides a general framework for understanding, combining and applying the rich range of approaches that exist within sociology about science: in particular, the role (and limitations) of science in generating knowledge, and the relationship between scientific knowledge and social progress. Drawing on case studies from the past up until today's new genetics, this is a clear, even-handed and comprehensive introduction to the field.
PART ONE: EMERGENCE AND INNOVATION -- An Introduction to Issues and Forebears -- The Perspective of this Book: Reflexive Epistemological Diversity -- Risk and Technoscience: The Fusion of Society, Science and Technology Today -- PART TWO: THEORETICAL APPROACHES -- Science and Institutional Interests: The Strong Programme and Beyond -- Science and Language/Interaction: Ethnography and Discourse -- Science and Capitalism: Critical Theory and Critical Realism -- Science and Patriarchy: Women as Subjects/Objects of Science -- PART THREE: CASE STUDIES -- Second Nature: Genetic Modification and Commodification of the Non-Human -- Human Nature? Human Behaviour and Genetic Determinism -- Medical Genetics and Human Health -- PART FOUR: -- Conclusions: Reflexive Epistemological Diversity (RED) -- Tables.