Re-Thinking Science: Knowledge and the Public in an Age of Uncertainty

by Helga Nowotny, Peter Scott, Michael Gibbons, et al.

Book Overview

Re-Thinking Science presents an account of the dynamic relationship between society and science. Despite the mounting evidence of a much closer, interactive relationship between society and science, current debate still seems to turn on the need to maintain a 'line' to demarcate them. The view persists that there is a one-way communication flow from science to society - with scant attention given to the ways in which society communicates with science...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745626084
• ISBN13: 9780745626086
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"