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Science and Democracy advances a systematic, yet detailed, co-productionist understanding of how emerging modes of making knowledge in genomics and other fields (e.g., nanotechnology, informatics, climate research) are simultaneously and reciprocally remaking social order, empowering and disempowering groups of citizens, creating n

Stephen Hilgartner is Assistant Professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University.

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How the regimes governing biological research changed during the genomics revolution, focusing on the Human Genome Project.

Behind today's headlines stands an unobtrusive army of science advisors--panels of scientific, medical, and engineering experts evaluate the safety of the food we eat, the drugs we take, and the cars we drive. This book studies, theoretically and empirically, the social process through which the credibility of expert advice is produced, challenged, and sustained.