The paradox of scientific authority: the role of scientific advice in democracies
Today, scientific advice is asked for (and given) on questions ranging from stem-cell research to genetically modified food. And yet it often seems that the more urgently scientific advice is solicited, the more vigorously scientific authority is questioned by policy makers, stakeholders, and citize...
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| Summary: | Today, scientific advice is asked for (and given) on questions ranging from stem-cell research to genetically modified food. And yet it often seems that the more urgently scientific advice is solicited, the more vigorously scientific authority is questioned by policy makers, stakeholders, and citizens. This book examines a paradox: how scientific advice can be influential in society even when the status of science and scientists seems to be at a low ebb. The authors do this by means of an ethnographic study of the creation of scientific authority at one of the key sites for the interaction of science, policy, and society: the scientific advisory committee. The Paradox of Scientific Authority offers a detailed analysis of the inner workings of the influential Health Council of the Netherlands (the equivalent of the National Academy of Science in the United States), examining its societal role as well as its internal functioning and using the findings to build a theory of scientific advising. The question of scientific authority has political as well as scholarly relevance. Democratic political institutions, largely developed in the nineteenth century, lack the institutional means to address the twenty-first century's pervasively scientific and technological culture; and science and technology studies (S&TS) grapples with the central question of how to understand the authority of science while recognizing its socially constructed nature. |
| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS PREFACE VII INTRODUCTION 1 1 THE GEZONDHEIDSRAAD 13 2 SCIENCE
AND POLITICS IN A TECHNOLOGICAL CULTURE*METHODS AND CONCEPTS 23 3
PREPARING THE STAGE: DEFINING THE PROBLEM AND SHAPING THE COMMITTEE 47 4
COMMITTEES AT WORK: ON ORGANIZING CONFIDENTIAL DISPUTES, DOING RESEARCH,
AND WRITING ADVICE 71 5 MISSIONARY ZEAL AND REPAIR WORK 107 6 THE WORK
AND THE PRODUCT OF SCIENTIFIC ADVISING 137 CONCLUSION 153 APPENDIX 1 69
NOTES 181 REFERENCES 207 INDEX 221
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