Who owns knowledge?
Subtitle: knowledge and the law
By: edited by Nico Stehr and Bernd Weiler.
Contributors: Stehr, Nico.; Weiler, Bernd.
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9780765803375
Subjects: Science and law; Law and economics; Culture and law
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Knowledge and the law : can knowledge be made just? / Nico Stehr and Bernd Weiler; title: The social contexts of knowledge and the law; title: Introduction to part 1 / Steve Fuller; title: The law and economics of rights in valuable information / Edmund W. Kitch; title: Scientific norms, legal facts, and the politics of knowledge / Alfons Bora; title: Is a just system also fair? traversing the domain of knowledge, institutions, culture, and ethics / Anil K. Gupta; title: Major social institutions, knowledge and the law; title: Introduction to part 2 / Steve Fuller; title: Fundamental ignorance in the regulation of reactor safety and flooding: risks of knowledge management in the risk society / Michael Huber; title: Science in whole interest? states, firms, the public, and scientific knowledge / Renée E. Marlin-Bennet; title: The social context of knowledge and the law: who owns knowldege; title: Introduction to part 3 / J. Rogers Hollingsworth; title: The difficult reception of rigorous descriptive social science in the law / Christoph Engel.; title: Inexplicable law : legality's adventure in Europe / Alexander Somek; title: In search of the story / Viktor Mayer-Schönberger; title: Does the category of justice apply to drug research based on traditional knowledge? the case of the Hoodia Cactus and the politics of biopiracy / Wolfgang van den Daele; title: Profiles and correlatable humans / Mireille Hildebrandt; title: Research ethics as the latest moral panic in the governance of scientific knowledge / Steve Fuller; title: Concluding observations / Rolf Rogowski.