Finalization in science : the social orientation of scientific progress / Gernot Böhme ... [and others] ; edited by Wolf Schäfer ; translated by Pete Burgess.
Translation of: Die Gesellschaftliche Orientierung des wissenschaftlichen Fortschritts; pt. 3 added for English ed.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographies and index.
Contents
Authors' introduction / Gernot Böhme ... et al. -- Agricultural chemistry / Wolfgang Krohn and Wolf Schäfer -- Autonomization and finalization / Gernot Böhme -- Cancer research / Rainer Hohlfeld -- Finalization revisited / Gernot Böhme, Wolfgang van den Daele, and Rainer Hohlfeld -- The scientification of technology / Gernot Böhme, Wolfgang van den Daele, and Wolfgang Krohn -- Normative finalization / Wolf Schäfer -- Science in a crisis of legitimation / Wolfgang van den Daele and Wolfgang Krohn -- Towards a social science of nature / Gernot Böhme and Wolf Schäfer.
