The Politics of Bioethics

Alan Petersen

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
• Recent rapid advances in the biosciences have led to considerable debate about the social, ethical, and legal implications of research and its applica... Lees meer

Information Communication Technology and Social Transformation

Hugh F Cline

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society | nr. 25
• This book argues that information communication technologies are not creating new forms of social structure, but rather altering long-standing institu... Lees meer

Global Public Health Vigilance

Lorna Weir, Eric Mykhalovskiy

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
• Global Public Health Vigilance is the first sociological book to investigate recent changes in how global public health authorities imagine and respon... Lees meer

Science and the Media

Massimiano Bucchi

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
• In the days of global warming and BSE, science is increasingly a public issue. This book provides a theoretical framework which allows us to understan... Lees meer

The Digital Evolution of an American Identity

C Waite

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
• The Digital Evolution of an American Identity details how the concept of American individualism is challenged by the digital revolution. As digital me... Lees meer

Internet and Emotions

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society | nr. 22
• Nothing seems more far removed from the visceral, bodily experience of emotions than the cold, rational technology of the Internet. But as this collec... Lees meer

Internet and Surveillance

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
• The Internet has been transformed in the past years from a system primarily oriented on information provision into a medium for communication and comm... Lees meer

Emotion in the Digital Age

Darren Ellis, Ian Tucker

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
• Emotion in the Digital Age examines how emotion is understood, researched and experienced in relation to practices of digitisation and datafication sa... Lees meer

Imagined Futures in Science, Technology and Society

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
• Imagining, forecasting and predicting the future is an inextricable and increasingly important part of the present. States, organizations and individu... Lees meer

Science Images and Popular Images of the Sciences

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
• What is a popular image of science and where does it come from? Little is known about the formation of science images and their transformation into po... Lees meer

Animals, Disease and Human Society

Joanna Swabe

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
• This book explores the history and nature of our dependency on other animals and the implications of this for human and animal health. Writing from an... Lees meer

Adolescents and Their Social Media Narratives

Jill Walsh

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
• Adolescents are forging a new path to self-development, taking advantage of the technology at their fingertips to produce desired results. In Adolesce... Lees meer

The Globalization of American Infrastructure

Matthew Heins

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
• This book gives an account of how the U.S. freight transportation system has been impacted and "globalized," since the 1950s, by the presence of the s... Lees meer

The Sociology of Structural Disaster

Miwao Matsumoto

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
• How and why did credible scientists, engineers, government officials, journalists, and others collectively give rise to a drastic failure to control t... Lees meer

Big Data-A New Medium?

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
• Drawing on a range of methods from across science and technology studies, digital humanities and digital arts, this book presents a comprehensive view... Lees meer

Global Public Health Vigilance

Lorna Weir, Eric Mykhalovskiy

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
• Global Public Health Vigilance is the first sociological book to investigate recent changes in how global public health authorities imagine and respon... Lees meer

The Good Life in a Technological Age

Tom Diamond, Mark Sanders

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
• Modern technology has changed the way we live, work, play, communicate, fight, love, and die. Yet few works have systematically explored these changes... Lees meer

Commodified Bodies

Oliver Decker

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
• Commodified Bodies examines the social practice of organ transplantation and trafficking and scrutinises the increasingly neoliberal tendencies in the... Lees meer

The Culture of Science

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society | nr. 15
• This book offers the first comparative account of the changes and stabilities of public perceptions of science within the US, France, China, Japan, an... Lees meer

The Fukushima Effect

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
• The Fukushima Effect offers a range of scholarly perspectives on the international effect of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown four years out fro... Lees meer

Public Communication of Research Universities

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
• This book analyses communication of university research institutes, with a focus on science communication. Advancing the 'decentralisation hypothesis'... Lees meer

Video Surveillance and Social Control in a Comparative Perspective

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
• This edited collection reports the results of a comparative study of video surveillance/CCTV in Germany, Poland, and Sweden. It investigates how video... Lees meer

Wind Power and Power Politics

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
• The aim of the book is to analyse the factors that have influenced wind power outcomes in a range of countries which have featured significant wind po... Lees meer

Transnational Environmental Policy

Reiner (Aston University) Grundmann

• Hardcover | Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
• This book analyses a surprising success story in the field of international environmental policy making: the threat to the ozone layer posed by indust... Lees meer