Title: Science and citizens
Description: Rapid advances and new technologies in the life sciences - such as biotechnologies in health, agricultural and environmental arenas - pose a range of pressing challenges to questions of citizenship. This volume brings together for the first time authors from diverse experiences and analytical traditions, encouraging a conversation between science and technology and development studies around issues of science, citizenship and globalisation. It reflects on the nature of expertise; the framing of knowledge; processes of public engagement; and issues of rights, justice and democracy. A wide varie.
Subjects: Science, Biology, World citizenship, Globalization, Biotechnology, Social aspects, Biology, social aspects, Science, social aspects, Political science & theory, Social Responsibility, Public Policy