Beyond Technocracy - Science, Politics and Citizens

Acknowledgements

Contents

Introduction

Science and Society: A Clash of Civilizations?

The Technocratic Response: All Power to the Experts

1.1 The “Missionary” Wing of Technocracy: “Deficit” and the Public Understanding of Science

1.2 The Flimsy Pillars of the Technocratic View

1.3 Democracy and Ignorance

1.4 A Flour that Threatened to Bring Down a Government

Einstein Has Left the Building: Coming to Terms with Post- academic Science

2.1 A Post-academic Science?

2.2 After Doctor Strangelove: How I Learned Not to Worry and Love the Stock Exchange

2.3 Whose Knowledge?

2.4 From Physics to Biology

2.5 A Mediatized Science

2.6 A Science Without Boundaries

2.7 The Eclipse of the Scientific Community?

2.8 … In the Meantime, Society Does Not Stand By and Watch

Citizens Enter the Laboratory Whilst Scientists Take to the Streets

3.1 From Two Stubborn Parents to Seven Thousand Square Metres of Laboratory

3.2 Childhood Leukaemia in Woburn: “Hybrid Forums” and the Co- production of Knowledge

3.3 Technoscience Debated in the Courts

3.4 From Users to Innovators: How a Windsurfer Kept Himself Afloat and Became Something of a Designer

3.5 Everyone Around a Table: Promoting Civic Participation in Technoscience

3.6 Science and Public Participation: A General Interpretative Framework

3.7 The “March of the Test-Tubes”: Scientists Take to the Streets

Beyond Technocracy: Democracy in the Age of Technoscience

4.1 Beyond the Illusions of Technocracy

4.2 Will Bioethics Save Us?

4.3 Why Are Citizens Against Biotechnologies?

4.4 Knowledge Is Power

4.5 The Presumed Neutrality of Technoscience

4.6 The Horse that Knew How to Do Sums

4.7 The Crisis of the “Double Delegation”

4.8 “Etsi Veritas Non Daretur”

4.9 Choosing the World We Want

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