Brian Wynne: 3 books
Rationality and Ritual
Participation and Exclusion in Nuclear Decision-making
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
In Rationality and Ritual, internationally renowned expert Brian Wynne offers a profound analysis of science and technology policymaking. By focusing on an episode of major importance in Britain's nuclear history – the Windscale Inquiry, a public hearing about the future of fuel reprocessing –...
Reframing Rights
Bioconstitutionalism in the Genetic Age
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2011
Investigations into the interplay of biological and legal conceptions of life, from government policies on cloning to DNA profiling by law enforcement.
Legal texts have been with us since the dawn of human history. Beginning in 1953, life too became textual. The discovery of the structure of...
Barcoding Nature
Shifting Cultures of Taxonomy in an Age of Biodiversity Loss
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
DNA Barcoding has been promoted since 2003 as a new, fast, digital genomics-based means of identifying natural species based on the idea that a small standard fragment of any organism’s genome (a so-called ‘micro-genome’) can faithfully identify and help to classify every species on the planet....