Bücher der Reihe Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

Describes and analyzes the transformations in global mechanisms for monitoring infectious disease outbreaks that have occurred since the mid-1990s. This book examines early warning outbreak detection, which operates electronically through the Internet to identify infectious disease outbreaks that may lead to international health emergencies.

Offers book-length analysis of disability through the lens of Science and Technology Studies (STS). This book is useful to practicing social service workers and readers in the fields of disability studies, sociology of the body/senses, medical sociology and STS.

We are living in times of global capitalist crisis. As a consequence, revolutions in the Arab world, the Occupy movement and other forms of rebellion have emerged. This volume addresses the question of how to critically make sense of a world in crisis, and how we can create Internet- and social media-commons and a commons-based participatory information society.

Highlights how online networking offers potential for fresh forms of activist mobilizing, repertoires, participatory democracy, direct action, fundraising, and civic engagement.

This book offers the first comparative account of the changes and stabilities of public perceptions of science within the US, France, China, Japan, and across Europe over the past few decades. The contributors address topics as the influence of cultural factors; the question of science and religion; and the demarcation of science from non-science.

This collection of essays brings together leading scholars from cultural anthropology, history, sociology and science studies to conduct a critical dialogue on the culture(s) of biomedical practice, discussing its material, epistemic and social implications.

This book offers the first comparative account of the changes and stabilities of public perceptions of science within the US, France, China, Japan, and across Europe over the past few decades. The contributors address topics as the influence of cultural factors; the question of science and religion; and the demarcation of science from non-science.

The Internet has been transformed in the past years from a system primarily oriented on information provision into a medium for communication and community-building. The notion of ¿Web 2.0¿, social software, and social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace have emerged in this context. With such platforms comes the massive provision and storage of personal data that are systematically evaluated, marketed, and used for targeting users with advertising. In a world of global economic competition, economic crisis, and fear of terrorism after 9/11, both corporations and state institutions have a growing interest in accessing this personal data. The contributions in this book provide a comprehensive look at issues that are redefining our entire concept of privacy and surveillance.

This volume shows how nanotechnology takes on a wide range of socio-historically specific meanings in the context of globalization, across multiple localities, institutions and collaborations, through diverse industries, research labs, and government agencies and in a variety of discussions within the public sphere itself. It explores the early origins of nanotechnologies, the social, economic, and political organization of the field, and the cultural and subjective meanings ascribed to nanotechnologies in social settings.

This book dicusses our relationship with other animals and the rise of veterinary medicine, posing important questions about the increasing intensification of animal use for both animal and human health.