ABSTRACT

Notes on contributors Acknowledgements 1. The Idiom of Co-production Sheila Jasanoff 2. Ordering Knowledge, Ordering Society Sheila Jasanoff 3. Climate Science and the Making of a Global Political Order Clark A. Miller 4. Co-producing CITES and the African Elephant Charis Thompson 5. Knowledge and Political Order in the European Environment Agency Claire Waterton and Brian Wynne 6. Plants, Power and Development: Founding the Imperial Department of Agriculture for the West Indies, 1880-1914 William K. Storey 7. Mapping Systems and Moral Order: Constituting property in genome laboratories Stephen Hilgartner 8. Patients and Scientists in French Muscular Dystrophy Research Vololona Rabeharisoa and Michel Callon 9. Circumscribing Expertise: Membership categories in courtroom testimony Michael Lynch 10. The Science of Merit and the Merit of Science: Mental order and social order in early twentieth-century France and America John Carson 11. Mysteries of State, Mysteries of Nature: Authority, knowledge and expertise in the seventeenth century Peter Dear 12. Reconstructing Sociotechnical Order: Vannevar Bush and US science policy Michael Aaron Dennis 13. Science and the Political Imagination in Contemporary Democracies Yaron Ezrah 14. Afterword Sheila Jasanoff References Index

chapter |22 pages

Plants, Power and Development

Founding the Imperial Department of Agriculture for the West Indies, 1880–1914

chapter |11 pages

Mapping Systems and Moral Order

Constituting Property in Genome Laboratories

chapter |20 pages

Circumscribing Expertise

Membership Categories in Courtroom Testimony

chapter |25 pages

The Science of Merit and the Merit of Science

Mental Order and Social Order in Early Twentieth-Century France and America 1

chapter |19 pages

Mysteries of State, Mysteries of Nature

Authority, Knowledge and Expertise in the Seventeenth Century

chapter |29 pages

Reconstructing Sociotechnical Order

Vannevar Bush and US Science Policy

chapter |9 pages

Afterword