... aspects of one andthe same development GlobalAdministrativeLawandGlobalGovernance Another approach the advantages of which cannot easily be discarded is the more recent concept ofglobalgovernance ... is one ofthe central theses of this book that freedom ofscience as a human right lies at the very heart ofthe international governanceof science5 2 III Conclusion The concept ofglobaladministrative ... institutions, legal rules and principles, ofglobal norms for the purpose ofthe international governanceofscienceandofadministrative mechanisms to ensure the sound management of science- related problems...
... president ofthe National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Engineering was established in 1964, under the charter ofthe National Academy of Sciences, as a parallel organization of outstanding ... Academy of Sciences to secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health ofthe public The Institute acts under the responsibility ... president ofthe Institute of Medicine The National Research Council was organized by the National Academy of Sciences in 1916 to associate the broad community ofscienceand technology with the Academy’s...
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... matter how the earth moves with respect to the background of distant stars, the speed of light remains the same This mystery ofthe speed of light andthe existence, or nonexistence, ofthe ether was ... one ofthe deepest principles ofscienceand philosophy the underlying nature of reality To understand how this happened is to confront one ofthe great transformations in our understanding ofthe ... and register how high the mercury rises For this to happen some ofthe heat ofthe water must have been used to heat up and expand the mercury in the thermometer In other words, an exchange of...
... knowledge andthe implications of investigating the Universe from within Our study ofthe limits ofscienceandthescienceof limits will take us from the consideration of practical limits of cost, ... reminiscent ofthe fate of many ofthe creative arts There, the 'ironic' label singles out the postmodernist attitude that there is no core of reader-independent truth at the root ofthe work The text ... into Gödel's theorem The paradoxical result ofthe Michelson-Morley experiment on the speed of light set the stage for the theory of relativity The discovery of wave-particle duality of light forced...
... Studies of Science, and President ofthe Society for Social Studies ofScience Above and beyond these leadership roles, he was and remains a guiding spirit for the field As we reflect on the central themes ... itself and its effects on, for example, lung tissue andglobal climate Consequently, the politics ofscienceand technology the subject and agenda of so many ofthe chapters in this Handbook—becomes ... challenge the seamlessness of scientific and technical expertise There are competing epistemes in scienceand law, and when science is brought into the courtroom the value of its forms of knowledge...
... organization and require a high degree of centralization, although neither of these latter two approaches is particularly dependent upon the size ofthe organization Regardless ofthe size ofthe organization, ... were going to start a research business They walk in and anoint their office nurse study coordinator for the day They two trials and they look at each other and say, boy this is a whole lot harder ... over them The size of an organization can indicate its capacity to run multiple studies over time, reflecting the number of clinicians and patients involved in the organization and how much of the...
... Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (Amsterdam: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) Wouters, P (2005) The Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences, ... defining the laboratory andthe experimental station as the sites of legitimation of botany and zoology from the mid-nineteenth century (and thereby increasing their status), the place ofscience ... thought they were up to, the evaluation of their activities by those who then (and later) had greater power to solidify the boundaries ofscience put them on the outside—not just because of their...
... permeates much ofthe work ofthe time Indeed, much ofthe literature ofthe 1980s and early 1990s can be seen as digesting the implications of engineering being practiced in the context of business ... reinforce the conventional boundaries between the human andthe nonhuman, the political andthe scientific, government andthe public, the EEA concept is to be open to the transgression of boundaries and ... STS concepts and theories provide illuminating analyses ofthe social processes that constitute scienceand technology andthe social institutions and arrangements of which scienceand technology...