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, Madeleine Scammell, and Breena Holland, Community-Based Research in the United States: An Introductory Reconnaissance, Including Twelve Organizational Case Studies and Comparison with the Dutch Science Shops and the Mainstream American Research System.  Washington, DC and Amherst, MA: The Aspen Institute/The Loka Institute. April 1998. http://loka.org/CRN/case_study.htm ).

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://ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/degreeprog/courses.nsf/0/4e332abaa848f03685256edd0017527b?OpenDocument&ExpandSection=2

http://www.swarthmore.edu/es/EnvirPolitics.html