Evaluating Scientific Evidence: An Interdisciplinary Framework for Intellectual Due Process

by Erica Beecher-Monas

Book Overview

Scientific evidence is crucial in a burgeoning number of litigated cases, legislative enactments, regulatory decisions, and scholarly arguments. Evaluating Scientific Evidence explores the question of what counts as scientific knowledge, a question that has become a focus of heated courtroom and scholarly debate, not only in the United States, but in other common law countries such as the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Controversies are rife...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052167655X
• ISBN13: 9780521676557
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"