Controversy : politics of technical decisions

Author(s)

• Nelkin, Dorothy

Bibliographic Information

Controversy : politics of technical decisions

Dorothy Nelkin, editor

（Sage focus editions, 8）

Sage, c1992

3rd ed

• : hardcover

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

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

Table of Contents

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

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Details

• NCID: BD0127497X
• ISBN:
  • 0803944667
• LCCN: 91038991
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Newbury Park, CA
• Pages/Volumes: xxv, 258 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : T14.5
  • DC20 : 361.6/13
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Technology -- Social aspects
  • LCSH : Science -- Social aspects
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00351552