Science Images and Popular Images of the Sciences

Edited by Peter Weingart, Bernd Huppauf

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...

ISBN: 978-0-415-38381-3 | Published October 17th 2007 by Routledge.

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Journalism, Science and Society

Science Communication between News and Public Relations

Edited by Martin Bauer, Massimiano Bucchi

Analyzing the role of journalists in science communication, this book presents a perspective on how this is going to evolve in the twenty-first century.

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ISBN: 978-0-415-37528-3 | Published September 7th 2007 by Routledge.

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Biomedicine as Culture

Instrumental Practices, Technoscientific Knowledge, and New Modes of Life

Edited by Regula Valérie Burri, Joseph Dumit

This volume offers interdisciplinary perspectives on contemporary biomedicine as a cultural practice. The collection of essays brings together leading scholars from cultural anthropology, sociology, history,...

ISBN: 978-0-415-95798-4 | Published June 15th 2007 by Routledge.

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Technoculture and Critical Theory

In the Service of the Machine?

By Simon Cooper

The author explores the work of major thinkers and cultural movements that have grappled with the complex relationship between technology, politics and culture. Subjects such...

ISBN: 978-0-415-26160-9 | Published August 1st 2002 by Routledge.

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Biology and Political Science

By Robert Blank, Samuel M. Hines Jnr.

This book demonstrates the increasing interest of some social scientists in the theories, research and findings of life sciences in building a more interdisciplinary approach...

ISBN: 978-0-415-20436-1 | Published July 26th 2001 by Routledge.

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Transnational Environmental Policy

Reconstructing Ozone

By Reiner Grundmann

Transnational Environmental Policy analyses a surprising success story in the field of international environmental policy making; the threat to the ozone layer posed by industrial...

ISBN: 978-0-415-22423-9 | Published March 15th 2001 by Routledge.

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Animals, Disease and Human Society

Human-animal Relations and the Rise of Veterinary Medicine

By Joanna Swabe

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...

ISBN: 978-0-415-18193-8 | Published October 1st 1998 by Routledge.

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Science and the Media

Alternative Routes to Scientific Communications

By Massimiano Bucchi

In the days of global warming and BSE, science is increasingly a public issue. This book provides a theoretical framework which allows us to understand...

ISBN: 978-0-415-18952-1 | Published August 6th 1998 by Routledge.

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