Science in Society

PART ONE: EMERGENCE AND INNOVATION.- An Introduction to Issues and Forebears.- The Perspective of this Book: Reflexive Epistemological Diversity.- Risk and Technoscience: The Fusion of Society, Science and Technology Today.- PART TWO: THEORETICAL APPROACHES.- Science and Institutional Interests: The Strong Programme and Beyond.- Science and Language/Interaction: Ethnography and Discourse.- Science and Capitalism: Critical Theory and Critical Realism.- Science and Patriarchy: Women as Subjects/Objects of Science.- PART THREE: CASE STUDIES.- Second Nature: Genetic Modification and Commodification of the Non-Human.- Human Nature? Human Behaviour and Genetic Determinism.- Medical Genetics and Human Health.- PART FOUR:.- Conclusions: Reflexive Epistemological Diversity (RED).- Tables.