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Secrecy and Science
A Historical Sociology of Biological and Chemical Warfare
Langbeschreibung
Drawing on classical sociological writing on secrecy by Simmel, Merton and Shils Secrecy and Science draws on recently declassified documents to investigate significant episodes in the history of biological and chemical warfare. At the same time, it draws on more contemporary perspectives in science and technology studies that understand knowledge and social order as co-produced within heterogeneous networks of 'things and people' in order to develop a theoretical set of arguments about how the relationship between secrecy and science might be understood.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Abbreviations; Preface and Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Secret Science; Chapter 2 Secrecy at Work: Scientists' Defence of Biological Warfare Research; Chapter 3 Making Secrets: Accidents, Experiments and the Production of Knowledge; Chapter 4 Keeping, Disclosing and Breaching Secrets: Classification and Security; Chapter 5 Secrecy, Doubt and Uncertainty: Power/Ignorance?; Chapter 6 Secrecy, Transparency and Public Relations: Opening Up Porton Down in the 'Year of the Barricades'; Chapter 7 Secret Spaces of Science: A Secret Formula, a Rogue Patent and Public Knowledge about Nerve Gas; Chapter 8 Opaque Science;
Brian Balmer, Reader in Science Policy Studies, University College London, UK
ISBN-13:
9781138277281
Veröffentl:
2016
Erscheinungsdatum:
28.11.2016
Seiten:
182
Autor:
Brian Balmer
Gewicht:
268 g
Format:
234x156x10 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
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