Science, Technology, and Public Policy
BIBLIOGRAPHY
(in development, version 10/4/05)
(for deeper
consideration of the issues raised in classes and for the
many topics, case studies, and themes that cannot be covered during a single
semester.)
IDEALS OF SCIENCE &
POLITICS
Science, Technology, and
Democracy
Langdon Winner, ÒDo Artifacts
Have Politics?,Ó Daedalus (1980); reprinted in A.H. Teich, Technology and
the Future (Bedford/St. MartinÕs, 2000), 150-67.
Thomas F. Gieryn, ÒBalancing
Acts: Science, Enola Gay and History Wars at the Smithsonian,Ó in Politics
of Display: Museums, Science, Culture (Routledge, 1998), 199-227.
Sclove, R. (1995). 'In every sense the experts' Strong democracy and technology. Democracy
and Technology. New York, Guilford: 25-57.
Sclove, R. E. (2003). Technological politics as if democracy
really mattered. Technology and the Future. A. Teich. Belmont, CA,
Thompson/Wadsworth: 91-108.
Lewontin, R. (2002). "The politics of science." The
New York Review of Books 49(8).
http://www.nybooks.com.eresources.lib.umb.edu/articles/15366
Sclove, R. E. (n.d.). "Town Meetings on
Technology." (http://www.loka.org/pubs/techrev.htm).
Philip Kitcher, ÒWell-ordered
science,Ó Science, Truth, and Democracy (Oxford, 2001), 117-135.
Drawing Boundaries
Larry Laudan, ÒDemise of the
Demarcation Problem,Ó in Michael Ruse, ed., But is it Science?
(Prometheus, 1988), 337-50. ERes
Barry
Barnes, David Bloor, & John Henry, ÒDrawing Boundaries,Ó Scientific
Knowledge: A Sociological Analysis (Chicago, 1996), 140-68.
Gieryn, T. F. (1995). Boundaries of science. Handbook of
Science and Technology Studies. S. S. Jasanoff, G. E. Markle, J. C.
Petersen and T. J. Pinch. Thousand Oaks, Sage: 393-443.
Philip Kitcher, Science,
Truth, and Democracy (Oxford, 2001), 85-108.
The Nature of Science
Carnap, Rudolf, An Introduction to the
Philosophy of Science.
Dover, NY. 1995. Part I ÒLaws, Explanation and Probability,Ó pp. 3-47, and Part
IV ÒCausality and Determinism,Ó pp. 187-222.
Kuhn, Thomas S., The Structure of
Scientific Revolutions, Second Edition.
University of Chicago Press, Chicago. 1970. Chapters I-V, IX, X. (about 80
pages).
Science, capitalism, and socialist
critiques
Yoxen, E. (1981). Life as a productive force: Capitalising
the science and technology of molecular biology. Science, Technology and the
Labour Process, Marxist Studies Vol. 1. L. Levidow and R. Young. London,
CSE Books: 66-122.
+ TBA
Community-based research
and assessment
Richard E. Sclove,
"Putting Science to Work in Communities," Opinion Essay, The
Chronicle of Higher Education, 41, no. 29 (31 March 1995), pp. B1-B3;
http://www.loka.org/alerts/loka.2.5a.txt
"Living Knowledge"
international science shop network;
http://www.scienceshops.org/
Hall 1997?
Others TBA
SCIENCE IN POST-WAR AMERICA
Nature And Sources Of
Authority
Robert K. Merton, ÒScience
and Democratic Social StructureÓ (1942), reprinted in Social Theory and Social
Structure (Free Press, 1968), 604-615. ERes
Paul Josephson, Totalitarian
Science and Technology (Humanities Press, 1996), 7-74.
David Hollinger,ÓScience as a
Weapon in KulturkŠmpfe in the United States During and After World WarII,Ó Isis
(1995) 86:440-54. ERes
Creating The Framework For
American Science-State Relations
Bruce L.R. Smith, American
Science Policy Since World War II (Brookings, 1990), 36-72. ERes
Vannevar Bush, Science: The
Endless Frontier (1945), 30 pp. ERes
Daniel Greenberg, ÒVannevar
Bush and the Myth of Creation,Ó Science, Money, and Politics (Chicago,
2001), 41-58. ERes
David H. Guston,
ÒUnderstanding the Social Contract for Science,Ó Between Politics and Science
(Cambridge, 1999), 37-63. Eres
[see also chapter in Jasanoff et al. Handbook)
Dickson, D. (1984). The New Politics
of Science. New York, Pantheon, 1-55.
Military-scientific complex
TBA
SCIENCE AND ADVERSARIAL
PROCESS
The Courts
Sheila
Jasanoff, Science at the Bar: Law, Science, and Technology in America
(Harvard, 1995).
McLean v. Arkansas (1982).
Cass R. Sunstein, Risk and Reason: Safety, Law, and the Environment (Cambridge, 2002), 191-228.
Comparative Regulation
Jasanoff, S. (2005). Designs on Nature: Science and
Democracy in Europe and the United States. Princeton, Princeton University
Press.
Science_Technology_and_Governance_in_Europe (2004).
"Final report and Publications." www.stage-research.net/STAGE/(viewed
13 Aug 05).
THE COMMERCIALIZATION OF
SCIENCE
Eyal Press and Jennifer
Washburn, ÒThe Kept University,Ó Atlantic Monthly (March 2000), 39-54.
Loren Lomasky, "Who
Should Profit from the Business of Science?" Hastings Center Report
(1987), 5-7.
Harry Collins and Trevor
Pinch, ÒThe Sun in a Test Tube: The Story of Cold Fusion,Ó The Golem: What
Everyone Should Know about Science (1994), 57-78.
Sheila Slaughter and Gary
Rhodes, ÒThe Emergence of a Competitiveness Research and Development Policy
Coalition and the Commercialization of Academic Science and Technology,Ó in P.
Mirowski and E-M. Sent, eds., Science Bought and Sold (Chicago, 2002),
69-108. ERes
RISK
Theoretical Questions
Mary Douglas, "Risk and
Blame,ÓRisk and Blame: Essays in Cultural Theory (Routledge, 1992),
3-21.
Paul Slovic, "Perception
of Risk," Science (1987), 236:200-205.
Howard Margolis, ÒThe Risk
Matrix,Ó Dealing with Risk: Why the Public and the Experts Disagree on
Environmental Issues (Chicago, 1996), 72-97. EResqq
Cass Sunstein, Risk and
Reason: Safety, Law, and the Environment (Cambridge, 2002), 28-77.
Yearley, S. (2005). Figuring out risks. Making Sense of
Science: Understanding the Social Study of Science. London, Sage: 129-142.
The ÒPrecautionary
PrincipleÓ
Andrew Jordan and Timothy
OÕRiordan, ÒThe Precautionary Principle in Contemporary Environmental Policy
and Politics,Ó in Carolyn Raffensperger and Joel Ticknor, eds., Protecting
Public Health and the Environment: Implementing the Precautionary Principle
(Island Press, 1999), 15-35.
Aaron Wildavsky, ÒTrial and
Error versus Trial without Error,Ó in Julian Morris, ed., Rethinking Risk
and the Precautionary Principle (Butterworth-Heinemann, 2000), 22-45.
Myers, N. (2004). "The rise of the precautionary
principle: A social movement gains strength." Multinational Monitor(September):
9-15; http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/mm2004/09012004/september04corp1.html
(viewed 14 Aug. 05)
AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY
& GENETICALLY-MODIFIED FOODS
Alan McHughen, PandoraÕs Picnic Basket: Potential and Hazards of Genetically Modified Foods (Oxford, 2000)
David Magnus and Arthur Caplan, ÒThe Primacy of the Moral in the GMO Debates,Ó in Michael Ruse and David Castle, eds., Genetically Modified Foods: (Prometheus, 2002), 80-87. ERes
Mark Sagoff, ÒGenetic
Engineering and the Concept of the Natural,Ó Philosophy & Public Policy
Quarterly(Spring/Summer 2001) 21: 2-10.
Bereano, P. (2003). "Trans-Atlantic Food Fight." Gene
Watch 16(3), http://www.gene-watch.org/genewatch/articles/16-3bereano.html
(viewed 4 Sept. 05)
LOW-DOSE EXPOSURES TO
CHEMICALS AND RADIATION
Cass R. Sunstein, Risk and Reason: Safety, Law, and the Environment (Cambridge, 2002), 153-90.
Rachel Carson, ÒOne in Every
Four,Ó Silent Spring (1962), 219-43.
Allen Mazur, ÒDisputes among
Experts.Ó Minerva (1973) 11:243-63.
Sheila Jasanoff,
ÒHarmonization--The Politics of Reasoning Together,Ó The Politics of
Chemical Risk, R. Bal and W. Halffman, eds. (Kluwer, 1998), 173-94. ERes
Bruce Ames, Renae Magaw,
& Lois Gold, ÒRanking Possible Carcinogenic Hazards,Ó Science (1987) 236:
271-80.
Aaron Wildavsky, ÒNo Runs, No
Hits, No Errors: The Asbestos and Alar Scares,Ó But Is It True?
(Harvard, 1995), 185-221.
Robert Proctor. ÒNatural
Carcinogens and the Myth of Toxic Hazards,Ó Cancer Wars: How Politics Shapes
What We Know and DonÕt Know about Cancer (Basic Books, 1995), 133-52. E-Res
Cole, Leonard, Element of Risk: The
Politics of Radon. Oxford University Press. Oxford. 1993. Ch. 2, ÒThe
Science of UncertaintyÓ
TECHNOLOGICAL CATASTROPHE
Conflicting Theories
Scott Sagan, The Limits of
Safety: Organizations, Accidents, and Nuclear Weapons (Princeton, 1993),
3-52.
Robert Pool, ÒWhen Safety is
Not an Option,Ó Technology Review (July 1997), 39-45. ERes
Charles Perrow, ÒNormal
Accident at Three Mile Island,Ó Transaction (1981), 17-26.
Case Studies
Richard Feynman, "An
Outsider's Inside View of the Challenger Inquiry," Physics Today (1988),
26-37.
Harry Collins and Trevor
Pinch, ÒThe Naked Launch: Assigning Blame for the Challenger Explosion,Ó The
Golem at Large: What You Should Know about Technology (Cambridge, 1998),
30-56. ERes
William Langewiesche, ÒThe
Lessons of ValuJet 592,Ó Atlantic Monthly (March 1998), 81-98.
BIOLOGICAL DETERMINISM
Hernstein, Richard and
Charles Murray, The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American
Life. 1996.
Jacoby, Russel, and Naomi
Glauberman, eds. The Bell Curve Debate: History, Documents, Opinions.
1995.
Gould, Steven Jay, The
Mismeasure of Man (revised and expanded edition). W.W. Norton, NY. 1996.
Lewontin, Richard, It AinÕt Necessarily
So: The dream of the human genome and other illusions (second edition). New
York Review Books, NY. 2001. Ch.
1., ÒThe Inferiority ComplexÓ
Freese, J., B. Powell and L. C. Steelman
(1999). "Rebel without a cause or effect; Birth order and social
attitudes." American Sociological Review 64: 207-231.
Gilbert, S. F. (1988). ÒCellular Politics.Ó In The American
Development of Biology, ed. R. Rainger, K. Benson, and J. Maienschein.
Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 311-345.
Taylor, P. J. (2004). "What can we do? -- Moving
debates over genetic determinism in new directions." Science as Culture
13(3): 331-355.
ANALYSIS OF CULTURAL ORIGINS AND SHIFTS
Evolution & Creationism
Various authors, ÒThe Talk.Origins
Archive.Ó http://www.talkorigins.org/
Midgley, M. (2004). "On the origin of
creationism." New Scientist(25 Dec.): 29.
Media representations
Edwards, P. E. (1997).
The terminator meets commander data: Cyborg identity in the New World
Order. Changing Life: Genomes,
Ecologies, Bodies, Commodities. P. J. Taylor, S. E. Halfon and P. E.
Edwards. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press: 14-35.
Marchessault, J. and K. Sawchuk, Eds. (2000). Wild
Science: Reading Feminism, Medicine, and the Media. London, Routledge.
SCIENCE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Lee, Kai, Compass and
Gyroscope. Island Press. 1995
Porritt, Jonathon, Playing
Safe: Science and the Environment. Thames and Hudson. 2001
Gendered Perspectives
Carson, Rachel, Silent Spring
(various publishers). 1962. Ch. 1-8, 15, 16.
Hynes, Patricia, The Recurring Silent
Spring. Elsevier Science.
RELATED SYLLABI
http://www.4sonline.org/syllabi.htm, esp.
GustonÕs
http://www.swarthmore.edu/es/EnvirPolitics.html