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Contested Boundaries in Policy-Relevant Science by Jasanoff, Sheila S.

“…In the United States, as in other industrialized nations, regulatory decisions to protect the environment and public health depend heavily on scientific…”
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Ordering life: law and the normalization of biotechnology by Jasanoff, S

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Knowledge élites and class war by Jasanoff, Sheila

“…Knowledge, not money, has emerged as the most important instrument of social separation in technologically advanced societies. The redrawing of class lines…”
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Breaking the Waves in Science Studies: Comment on H.M. Collins and Robert Evans, 'The Third Wave of Science Studies' by Jasanoff, Sheila

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Law's Knowledge: Science for Justice in Legal Settings by Jasanoff, Sheila

“…Legal developments following Daubert v Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc indicate a growing need to reevaluate the decision's fundamental assumptions about law,…”
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Representation and Re-Presentation in Litigation Science by Jasanoff, Sheila

“…Federal appellate courts have devised several criteria to help judges distinguish between reliable and unreliable scientific evidence. The best known are the…”
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TECHNOLOGIES OF HUMILITY: CITIZEN PARTICIPATION IN GOVERNING SCIENCE by JASANOFF, SHEILA, JASONOFF, SHEILA

“…Building on recent theories of science in society, such as that provided by the 'Mode 2' framework, this paper argues that governments should reconsider…”
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Science, Politics, and the Renegotiation of Expertise at EPA by Jasanoff, Sheila

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In the democracies of DNA: ontological uncertainty and political order in three states by Jasanoff, Sheila

“…This paper compares the regulation of biotechnology in Britain, Germany and the United States and shows that systematic differences have developed around four…”
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The political science of risk perception by Jasanoff, Sheila

“…Psychometric research on risk perception has frequently been invoked as evidence for a distinction between ‘actual’ risk as measured by experts and ‘perceived’…”
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The Eye of Everyman: Witnessing DNA in the Simpson Trial by Jasanoff, Sheila

“…Science was supposed to clinch OJ Simpson's guilt in the criminal trial that entranced both press and public in the United States for ten months in 1995…”
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The Songlines of Risk by Jasanoff, Sheila

“…Two decades of social and political analysis have helped to enrich the concept of risk that underlies the bulk of modern environmental regulation. Risk is no…”
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Science and the Statistical Victim: Modernizing Knowledge in Breast Implant Litigation by Jasanoff, Sheila

“…The advent of mass torts in US federal courts in the latter third of the 20th century accelerated a process of modernization in an institution that was…”
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The Life Sciences and the Rule of Law by Jasanoff, Sheila

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Beyond Epistemology: Relativism and Engagement in the Politics of Science by Jasanoff, Sheila

“…In recent years, it has become increasingly clear that work in the social studies of science and technology can be appropriated, or consciously deployed, to…”
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Reconstructing the past, Constructing the Present: Can Science Studies and the History of Science Live Happily Ever after? by Jasanoff, Sheila

“…Historical and contemporary social studies of science and technology have developed an asymmetrical relationship in recent years. While historical research has…”
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New Modernities: Reimagining Science, Technology and Development by Jasanoff, Sheila

“…'Development' operates as an allegedly value-neutral concept in the policy world. This essay describes four mechanisms that have helped to strip development of…”
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Reconstructing the past, constructing the present: can science studies and the history of science live happily ever after? by Jasanoff, S

“…Historical and contemporary social studies of science and technology have developed an asymmetrical relationship in recent years. Suggests that the 2 fields…”
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Procedural choices in regulatory science by Jasanoff, Sheila

“…Policymakers have long assumed that scientific inputs to regulatory decisions (facts) should be insulated as far as possible from political and policy…”
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Election 2000: Mechanical Error or System Failure? by Jasanoff, Sheila

“…Comments on how the regularity of US presidential succession was disrupted by the 2000 election & questions whether the controversy surrounding the election…”
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