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  1. States of knowledge: the co-production of science and social order.Sheila Jasanoff (ed.) - 2004 - New York: Routledge.
    In the past twenty years, the field of science and technology studies (S&TS) has made considerable progress toward illuminating the relationship between scientific knowledge and political power. These insights have not yet been synthesized or presented in a form that systematically highlights the connections between S&TS and other social sciences. This timely collection of essays by some of the leading scholars in the field attempts to fill that gap. The book develops the theme of "co-production", showing how scientific knowledge both (...)
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  2. Containing the Atom: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and Nuclear Power in the United States and South Korea.Sheila Jasanoff & Sang-Hyun Kim - 2009 - Minerva 47 (2):119-146.
    STS research has devoted relatively little attention to the promotion and reception of science and technology by non-scientific actors and institutions. One consequence is that the relationship of science and technology to political power has tended to remain undertheorized. This article aims to fill that gap by introducing the concept of sociotechnical imaginaries. Through a comparative examination of the development and regulation of nuclear power in the US and South Korea, the article demonstrates the analytic potential of the imaginaries concept. (...)
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    The ethics of invention: technology and the human future.Sheila Jasanoff - 2016 - New York: W.W. Norton & Company.
    The power of technology? -- Risk and responsibility? -- The ethical anatomy of disasters? -- Remaking nature? -- Tinkering with humans? -- Information's wild frontiers? -- Whose knowledge, whose property? -- Reclaiming the future? -- The ethics of invention?
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    Science and public reason.Sheila Jasanoff - 2012 - New York: Routledge.
    This collection of essays by Sheila Jasanoff explores how democratic governments construct public reason, that is, the forms of evidence and argument used in making state decisions accountable to citizens.
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    A New Climate for Society.Sheila Jasanoff - 2010 - Theory, Culture and Society 27 (2-3):233-253.
    This article argues that climate change produces discordances in established ways of understanding the human place in nature, and so offers unique challenges and opportunities for the interpretive social sciences. Scientific assessments such as those of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change helped establish climate change as a global phenomenon, but in the process they detached knowledge from meaning. Climate facts arise from impersonal observation whereas meanings emerge from embedded experience. Climate science thus cuts against the grain of common sense (...)
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  6. Constitutional Moments in Governing Science and Technology.Sheila Jasanoff - 2011 - Science and Engineering Ethics 17 (4):621-638.
    Scholars in science and technology studies (STS) have recently been called upon to advise governments on the design of procedures for public engagement. Any such instrumental function should be carried out consistently with STS’s interpretive and normative obligations as a social science discipline. This article illustrates how such threefold integration can be achieved by reviewing current US participatory politics against a 70-year backdrop of tacit constitutional developments in governing science and technology. Two broad cycles of constitutional adjustment are discerned: the (...)
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    Virtual, visible, and actionable: Data assemblages and the sightlines of justice.Sheila Jasanoff - 2017 - Big Data and Society 4 (2).
    This paper explores the politics of representing events in the world in the form of data points, data sets, or data associations. Data collection involves an act of seeing and recording something that was previously hidden and possibly unnamed. The incidences included in a data set are not random or unrelated but stand for coherent, classifiable phenomena in the world. Moreover, for data to have an impact on law and policy, such information must be seen as actionable, that is, the (...)
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    Constitutionalism at the Nexus of Life and Law.Krishanu Saha, Sheila Jasanoff & J. Benjamin Hurlbut - 2020 - Science, Technology, and Human Values 45 (6):979-1000.
    This essay introduces a collection of articles gathered under the theme of “law, science, and constitutions of life.” Together, they explore how revolutions in notions of what biological life is are eliciting correspondingly revolutionary imaginations of how life should be governed. The central theoretical contribution of the collection is to further elaborate the concept of bioconstitutionalism, which draws attention to especially consequential forms of coproduction at the law–life nexus. This introduction offers a theoretical discussion of bioconstitutionalism. It explores the constitutional (...)
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    Dreamscapes of modernity: sociotechnical imaginaries and the fabrication of power.Sheila Jasanoff & Sang-Hyun Kim (eds.) - 2015 - London: University of Chicago Press.
    Dreamscapes of Modernity offers the first book-length treatment of sociotechnical imaginaries, a concept originated by Sheila Jasanoff and developed in close collaboration with Sang-Hyun Kim to describe how visions of scientific and technological progress carry with them implicit ideas about public purposes, collective futures, and the common good. The book presents a mix of case studies—including nuclear power in Austria, Chinese rice biotechnology, Korean stem cell research, the Indonesian Internet, US bioethics, global health, and more—to illustrate how the concept of (...)
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    Borderlands of Life: IVF Embryos and the Law in the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany.Ingrid Metzler & Sheila Jasanoff - 2020 - Science, Technology, and Human Values 45 (6):1001-1037.
    Human embryos produced in labs since the 1970s have generated layers of uncertainty for law and policy: ontological, moral, and administrative. Ontologically, these lab-made entities fall into a gray zone between life and not-yet-life. Should in vitro embryos be treated as inanimate matter, like abandoned postsurgical tissue, or as private property? Morally, should they exist largely outside of state control in the zone of free reproductive choice or should they be regarded as autonomous human lives and thus entitled to constitutional (...)
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  11. Technologies of humility: citizen participation in governing science.Sheila Jasanoff - 2003 - Minerva 41 (3):223--244.
    Building on recent theories ofscience in society, such as that provided bythe `Mode 2' framework, this paper argues thatgovernments should reconsider existingrelations among decision-makers, experts, andcitizens in the management of technology.Policy-makers need a set of ` technologies ofhumility' for systematically assessing theunknown and the uncertain. Appropriate focalpoints for such modest assessments are framing,vulnerability, distribution, and learning.
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    Can science make sense of life?Sheila Jasanoff - 2018 - Medford, MA: Polity.
    Nearly 70 years after the dawn of the genetic age, biotechnology, scientists proclaim, is poised to rewrite the book of life. Yet, how far can science go in making sense of what "life" means to human beings and societies? This book looks at flash points in law, politics, ethics, and culture to argue that the claims of rewriting life are overblown.
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    Bioconstitutional Imaginaries and the Comparative Politics of Genetic Self-knowledge.Sheila Jasanoff, Luca Marelli, Ingrid Metzler & J. Benjamin Hurlbut - 2020 - Science, Technology, and Human Values 45 (6):1087-1118.
    Genetic testing has become a vehicle through which basic constitutional relationships between citizens and the state are revisited, reaffirmed, or rearticulated. The interplay between the is of genetic knowledge and the ought of government unfolds in the context of diverse imaginaries of the forms of human well-being, freedom, and flourishing that states have a duty to support. This article examines how the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States governed testing for Alzheimer’s disease, and how they diverged in defining potential (...)
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    The Songlines of Risk.Sheila Jasanoff - 1999 - Environmental Values 8 (2):135-152.
    Two decades of social and political analysis have helped to enrich the concept of risk that underlies the bulk of modern environmental regulation. Risk is no longer seen merely as the probability of harm arising from more or less determinable physical, biological or social causes. Instead, it seems more appropriate to view risk as the embodiment of deeply held cultural values and beliefs – the songlines of the paper's title – concerning such issues as agency, causation, and uncertainty. These values (...)
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    Dismantling Boundaries in Science and Technology Studies.Peter Dear & Sheila Jasanoff - 2010 - Isis 101 (4):759-774.
  16. A field of its own: the emergence of science and technology studies.Sheila Jasanoff - 2010 - In Robert Frodeman, Julie Thompson Klein & Carl Mitcham (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Interdisciplinarity. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
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    Innovation and integrity in biomedical research.Sheila Jasanoff - 2002 - In Ruth Ellen Bulger, Elizabeth Heitman & Stanley Joel Reiser (eds.), The ethical dimensions of the biological and health sciences. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 68--71.
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    The Vanishing Square: Civic Learning in the Internet Age.Sheila Jasanoff - 2021 - Hastings Center Report 51 (S1):5-9.
    Nation states in the twenty‐first century confront new challenges to their political legitimacy. Borders are more porous and less secure. Infectious disease epidemics, climate change, financial fraud, terrorism, and cybersecurity all involve cross‐border flows of material, human bodies, and information that threaten to overwhelm state power and expert knowledge. Concurrently, doubts have multiplied about whether citizens, subject to manipulation through the internet, have lost the critical capacity to hold rulers accountable for their expert decisions. I argue that the primary threat (...)
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    New Modernities: Reimagining Science, Technology and Development.Sheila Jasanoff - 2002 - Environmental Values 11 (3):253-276.
    'Development' operates as an allegedly value-neutral concept in the policy world. This essay describes four mechanisms that have helped to strip development of its subjective and meaning-laden elements: persistent misreading of technology as simply material and inanimate; uncritical acceptance of models, including economic ones, as adequate representations of complex systems; failure to recognize routine practices as repositories of power; and erasing history and time as relevant factors in producing scenarios for the future. Failure to take these elements into account has (...)
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  20. Technology as a site and object of politics.Sheila Jasanoff - 2006 - In Robert E. Goodin & Charles Tilly (eds.), The Oxford handbook of contextual political analysis. Oxford : New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 745--763.
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    Just Evidence: The Limits of Science in the Legal Process.Sheila Jasanoff - 2006 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 34 (2):328-341.
    Both opponents and proponents of the death penalty express faith in science and in DNA evidence to justify their positions. This article examines the production of forensic evidence as a social activity and suggests that tendencies toward bias and error may not apply symmetrically in inculpation and exoneration contexts.
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    Ethics Inside the Black Box: Integrating Science and Technology Studies into Engineering and Public Policy Curricula.Christopher Lawrence, Sheila Jasanoff, Sam Weiss Evans, Keith Raffel & L. Mahadevan - 2023 - Science and Engineering Ethics 29 (4):1-31.
    There is growing need for hybrid curricula that integrate constructivist methods from Science and Technology Studies (STS) into both engineering and policy courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. However, institutional and disciplinary barriers have made implementing such curricula difficult at many institutions. While several programs have recently been launched that mix technical training with consideration of “societal” or “ethical issues,” these programs often lack a constructivist element, leaving newly-minted practitioners entering practical fields ill-equipped to unpack the politics of knowledge (...)
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  23. Is science socially constructed—and can it still inform public policy?Sheila Jasanoff - 1996 - Science and Engineering Ethics 2 (3):263-276.
    This paper addresses, and seeks to correct, some frequent misunderstandings concerning the claim that science is socially constructed. It describes several features of scientific inquiry that have been usefully illuminated by constructivist studies of science, including the mundane or tacit skills involved in research, the social relationships in scientific laboratories, the causes of scientific controversy, and the interconnection of science and culture. Social construction, the paper argues, should be seen not as an alternative to but an enhancement of scientists’ own (...)
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    Talking about science: Commentary on “The golem: Uncertainty and communicating science”.Sheila Jasanoff - 2000 - Science and Engineering Ethics 6 (4):525-528.
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    Bodies in Transition: Ethics in Xenotransplantation Research.Sheila Jasanoff - 2018 - Hastings Center Report 48 (S4):67-69.
    Xenotransplantation, or the grafting of organs from one species to another, may seem at first a far cry from brain death, but there is rising hope in some quarters of the biomedical community that such transplants may reduce, even obviate, the need to harvest human organs—and hence eliminate the primary reason for needing an unambiguous definition of brain death. As with all research on the frontiers of biomedicine, xenotransplantation raises its own ethical quandaries. One concern that has long occupied ethical (...)
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    Bhopal’s Trials of Knowledge and Ignorance.Sheila Jasanoff - 2007 - Isis 98 (2):344-350.
    The disastrous gas leak at a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, in December 1984 displayed the law’s tragic inability to cope with the consequences of technological globalization. This essay describes the protracted efforts of the gas victims to obtain relief from courts in India and the United States and the reasons why the settlement of their legal claims did not satisfy their demands for justice. The victims’ self‐knowledge, whether scientific or social, found no traction in official medical record keeping (...)
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    Legal Alchemy: The Use and Misuse of Science in the Law. David L. Faigman.Sheila Jasanoff - 2001 - Isis 92 (2):378-379.
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    Law.Sheila Jasanoff - 1991 - In Dale Jamieson (ed.), A Companion to Environmental Philosophy. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 331–346.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Environmental impacts and health effects Risk assessment and management The precautionary principle Responsibility and burden of proof Environmental standards Market approaches Citizen participation and standing to sue International environmental law The future of environmental law.
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    Not Proven: Truth by Exhaustion in the Baltimore CaseThe Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science, and Character. Daniel J. Kevles.Sheila Jasanoff - 1999 - Isis 90 (4):781-783.
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    Ours Is the Earth: Science and Human History in the Anthropocene.Sheila Jasanoff - 2020 - Journal of the Philosophy of History 14 (3):337-358.
    History at one time drew unproblematically on records produced by human societies about themselves and their doings. Advances in biology and the earth sciences introduced new narrative resources that repositioned the human story in relation to the evolution of all else on the planet, thereby decentering earlier conceptions of time, life, and human agency. This essay reflects on what it means for our understanding of the human that the history of our species has become so intimately entangled with the material (...)
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    Peer Review and Public Policy. [REVIEW]Sheila Jasanoff & Daryl Chubin - 1985 - Science, Technology and Human Values 10 (3):3-5.
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    A Splintered Function: Fate, Faith, and the Father of the Atomic Bomb. [REVIEW]Sheila Jasanoff, Michael D. Gordin, Andrew Jewett & Charles Thorpe - 2008 - Metascience 17 (3):351-387.
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    Book Review: A House Built on Sand: Exposing Postmodernist Myths about Science. [REVIEW]Sheila Jasanoff - 1999 - Science, Technology, and Human Values 24 (4):495-500.
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    (1 other version)Ian Hacking. The Social Construction of What? x+261 pp., index. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. $34.50 ; $19.95. [REVIEW]Sheila Jasanoff - 2003 - Isis 94 (4):789-790.
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    Numbers you can trust? [REVIEW]Sheila Jasanoff - 1997 - Metascience 6 (1):82-87.
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    What inquiring minds should want to know. [REVIEW]Sheila Jasanoff - 2004 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 35 (1):149-157.