The new political sociology of science : institutions, networks, and power / / edited by Scott Frickel and Kelly Moore.

• Superior document: Science and technology in society
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Frickel, Scott.; Moore, Kelly, 1962-; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: Science and technology in society.
• Physical Description: ix, 487 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

Prospects and challenges for a new political sociology of science / Scott Frickel, Kelly Moore -- Contradiction in convergence: universities and industry in the biotechnology field / Daniel Lee Kleinman, Steven P. Vallas -- Commercial imbroglios: propriety science and the contemporary university / Jason Owen-Smith -- Commercial restructuring of collective resources in agrofood systems of innovation / Steven Wolf -- Antiangiogenesis research and the dynamics of scientific fields: historical and institutional perspectives in the sociology of science / David J. Hess -- Nanoscience, green chemistry, and the privileged position of science / Edward J. Woodhouse -- When convention becomes contentious: organizing science activism in genetic toxicology / Scott Frickel -- Changing ecologies: science and environmental politics in agriculture / Christopher R. Henke -- Embodied health movements: responses to a "scientized" world / Rachel Morello-Frosch, ...[et al.] -- Strategies for alternative science / Brian Martin -- Powered by the people: scientific authority in participatory science / Kelly Moore -- Institutionalizing the new politics difference in U.S. biomedical research: thinking across the science/state/society divides / Steven Epstein -- Creating participatory subjects: science, race, and democracy in a genomic age / Jenny Reardon -- On consensus and voting in science: from Asilomar to the National toxicology program / David H. Guston -- Learning to reflect or deflect? U.S. policies and graduate programs' ethics training for life scientists / Laurel Smith-Doerr -- Regulatory shifts, pharmaceutical scripts, and the new consumption junction: configuring high-risk women in an era of chemoprevention / Maren Klawiter.