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Deciphering Science and Technology

The Social Relations of Expertise

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  • © 1990

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Editors:
  1. Ian Varcoe

    1. University of Leeds, Belfast, UK

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  2. Maureen McNeil

    1. University of Birmingham, Belfast, UK

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  3. Steven Yearley

    1. Queen’s University, Belfast, UK

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Part of the book series: Explorations in Sociology. (EIS)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: The Centrality of Science and Technology

    • Ian Varcoe, Steven Yearley
    Pages 1-28

  3. The State, War and Technical Innovation in Great Britain, 1930–50: the Contrasts of Military and Civil Industry

    • David Edgerton
    Pages 29-49

  4. Who Gets Science Education?

    • Alison Kelly
    Pages 50-73

  5. Conceptions of British Employment Restructuring in the 1980s

    • Anna Pollert
    Pages 74-103

  6. Unhealthy Displays? Trade Unions, VDUs and the Social Construction of a Health Hazard

    • Peter Glasner, David Travis
    Pages 104-125

  7. New Technology and the Self-disciplined Worker in the Insurance Industry

    • David Knights, Adrew Sturdy
    Pages 126-154

  8. The Automation of Grain-terminal Elevators in Canada

    • Joel Novek
    Pages 155-176

  9. The Incorporation of Biotechnology into Plant-breeding in Cambridge

    • Andrew Webster
    Pages 177-201

  10. The Story of r2: Interest, Enrolment and Analogy in a Public Health Debate

    • Mel Bartley
    Pages 202-226

  11. The Conduct of Medical Consultations in an Echocardiography Unit

    • Jeanne Daly, Ian McDonald, Evan Willis
    Pages 227-246

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 247-256
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As science and technology have pervaded modern life to an ever greater degree, social scientists have been led to find questions of the causes and consequences of 'expert' knowledge arising in places that would have been felt unlikely hitherto. Varcoe, McNeil and Yearley's book assembles nine exemplary studies by sociologists, each of which explores an aspect of the current scientific-technological 'revolution'. Some popular ideas are challenged. So, too, implicitly, are certain large-scale social scientific theories claiming to have discerned in science and technology an overall meaning.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Leeds, Belfast, UK

    Ian Varcoe

  • University of Birmingham, Belfast, UK

    Maureen McNeil

  • Queen’s University, Belfast, UK

    Steven Yearley

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