Knowledge Politics: Governing the Consequences of Science and Technology

by Nico Stehr

Book Overview

This book argues that new technologies and society's response to them have created a relatively new phenomenon, "knowledge politics." Nico Stehr describes Western society's response to a host of new technologies developed only since the 1970s, including genetic experiments, test-tube human conception, recombinant DNA, and embryonic stem cells; genetically engineered foods; neurogenetics and genetic engineering; and reproductive cloning and the reconstruction...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594510873
• ISBN13: 9781594510878
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"