Misunderstanding Science? offers a challenging new perspective on the public understanding of science. In so doing, it also challenges existing ideas of the nature of science and its relationships with society. Its analysis and case presentation are highly relevant to current concerns over the uptake, authority, and effectiveness of science as expressed, for example, in areas such as education, medical/health practice, risk and the environment, technological innovation. Based on several in-depth case-studies, and informed theoretically by the sociology of scientific knowledge, the book shows how the public understanding of science questions raises issues of the epistemic commitments and institutional structures which constitute modern science. It suggests that many of the inadequacies in the social integration and uptake of science might be overcome if modern scientific institutions were more reflexive and open about the implicit normative commitments embedded in scientific cultures.
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'The case studies in Irwin and Wynne's volume ... contain several insights that scientists would find stimulating.' A. J. Meadows, Nature
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Misunderstanding Science? offers a challenging new perspective on the nature of modern science and its relationship with the public. As such, it contributes to the current heated discussion over the public understanding of science.
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This chapter takes as its focus one very specific example of public interaction with science - the case of the hill sheep-farmers of the Lake District of northern England. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
disappearing science, strategic research areas, local chemical industry, science communicators, science museum exhibition, public uptake, strategic science, scan operator, attending infertility clinics, misunderstanding science, higher order births, public understanding, hazard issues, hill farming, scientific ethos, radioactive pollution, environmental organisations, ionising radiation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Royal Society, New York, Cambridge University Press, Friends of the Earth, Isle of Man, Social Studies of Science, National Study, Department of Health, Ministry of Agriculture, British Medical, Northern Ireland, Open University Press, Academic Press, House of Commons Agriculture Select Committee, House of Commons Select Committee, Milton Keynes, North Sea Community Project, Polity Press, British Nuclear Fuels, Final Report, Government's Response, Human Reproduction, Pergamon Press, Rothschild Report, Sainsbury Gallery New!
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This chapter takes as its focus one very specific example of public interaction with science - the case of the hill sheep-farmers of the Lake District of northern England. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
disappearing science, strategic research areas, local chemical industry, science communicators, science museum exhibition, public uptake, strategic science, scan operator, attending infertility clinics, misunderstanding science, higher order births, public understanding, hazard issues, hill farming, scientific ethos, radioactive pollution, environmental organisations, ionising radiation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Royal Society, New York, Cambridge University Press, Friends of the Earth, Isle of Man, Social Studies of Science, National Study, Department of Health, Ministry of Agriculture, British Medical, Northern Ireland, Open University Press, Academic Press, House of Commons Agriculture Select Committee, House of Commons Select Committee, Milton Keynes, North Sea Community Project, Polity Press, British Nuclear Fuels, Final Report, Government's Response, Human Reproduction, Pergamon Press, Rothschild Report, Sainsbury Gallery New!
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