Preface
Introduction
PART I. CONTENTS: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES AND THEORETICAL PROPOSALS
The Feminist Challenge to Social Studies of Science
Julia Loughlin
Science, Sociology of Science, and the Anarchist Tradition
Sal Restivo
Counteranalysis: Toward Social and Normative Restraints on the Production and Use of Scientific and Technological Knowledge
Frans Birrer
Bringing the Scientist Back In: The Need for an Alternative Sociology of Scientific Knowledge
Ullica Segerstrale
Biotechnology and Ethics
Henk Verhoog
A Strategy for Making Science Studies Policy Relevant
Steve Fuller
Science as the Continuation of Politics by Other Means
Aant Elzinga
Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Science and the Context of Relevance
Peter Weingart
PART II. CONTENTIONS: EMPIRICAL STUDIES OF CONTROVERSIES
Reasons for Studying Scientific and Science-Based Controversies
Thomas Brante
Comparing "Tool Controveries": Science, Contexts, Institutional Power, and the Development of Medical Controversies
Sune Sunesson
Causal Stories, Scientific Information, and the Ozone Depletion Controversy: Intrusive Scenarios in the Policy Process
Andrew Weiss
Value Communities in Science: The Recombinant DNA Case
Tibor Szanto
The Image of Man in Sociobiology
Margarita Jeliazkova
Cultural Bias and Regulating Risky Technologies: The Dutch Debate on Regulating LPG-Related Activities
Rob Hoppe and Rob Pranger
Ethical Controversies of Science and Society: A Relation Between Two Spheres of Social Conflict
Randall Collins
Contributors
Index