Scientific cultures--technological challenges
Subtitle: a transatlantic perspective
By: edited by Klaus Benesch, Meike Zwingenberger
Contributors: Bayerische Amerika-Akademie
Series: Publications of the Bavarian American Academy -- v. 8; Publikationen der Bayerischen Amerika-Akademie -- Bd. 8.
Publisher: Winter
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Heidelberg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9783825355807
Subjects: Science; Congresses; History; Technology
Other titles: Scientific cultures; Technological challenges
Notes: Many of the essays presented here evolved from the 2007 annual conference of the Bavarian American Academy, Munich.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Diverging cultures, competing truths? Science, technology, and the humanities : an introduction / Klaus Benesch; title: Cultures of risk and the aesthetic of uncertainty / Ursula Heise; title: The habit of saying I : eigenvalues and resonance / Hanjo Berressem; title: The new alliance of neuroscience and the humanities : interdisciplinarity in the making / Suzanne Nalbantian; title: All over writing : the electronic book review (version 4.0) / Joseph Tabbi; title: From Ludwig Boltzmann's Formula to Meatball Mulligan's party; or how to fictionalize the entropy law; title: Bio Science : genetic genealogy testing and the pursuit of African ancestry / Alondra Nelson; title: Sustainability and the challenges of race, gender, and poverty to contemporary scientific cultures / Robin Morris Collin; title: Constructing competitive advantage : the evolution of state R&D investment funds in the United States / Heike Mayer; title: From black box to white box : the changing life worlds of communication technologies / David Nye; title: A signal success : an illuminating history of one woman, one invention / Denise E. Pilato; title: Disciplining technopolitics : physics, computing, and the "Star Wars" debate / Rebecca Slayton.