Misunderstanding Science?: The Public Reconstruction of Science and Technology
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Table of Contents
Introduction Alan Irwin and Brian Wynne | |
1. Misunderstood misunderstandings: social identities and the public uptake of science Brian Wynne | |
2. Science and hell's kitchen: the local understanding of hazard issues Alan Irwin, Alison Dale and Denis Smith | |
3. Authorising science: public understanding of science in museums Sharon Macdonald | |
4. Disembodied knowledge? Making sense of medical science Helen Lambert and Hilary Rose | |
5. Now you see it, now you don't: mediating science and managing uncertainty in reproductive medicine Frances Price | |
6. Knowing ignorance and ignoring knowledge: discourses of ignorance in the public understanding of science Mike Michael | |
7. Insiders and outsiders: identifying experts on home ground Rosemary McKechnie | |
8. Nature's advocates: on putting science to work in environmental organisations Steven Yearley. |
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