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Acknowledgements
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Contents
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Introduction
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Science and Society: A Clash of Civilizations?
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The Technocratic Response: All Power to the Experts
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1.1 The “Missionary” Wing of Technocracy: “Deficit” and the Public Understanding of Science
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1.2 The Flimsy Pillars of the Technocratic View
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1.3 Democracy and Ignorance
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1.4 A Flour that Threatened to Bring Down a Government
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Einstein Has Left the Building: Coming to Terms with Post- academic Science
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2.1 A Post-academic Science?
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2.2 After Doctor Strangelove: How I Learned Not to Worry and Love the Stock Exchange
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2.3 Whose Knowledge?
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2.4 From Physics to Biology
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2.5 A Mediatized Science
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2.6 A Science Without Boundaries
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2.7 The Eclipse of the Scientific Community?
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2.8 … In the Meantime, Society Does Not Stand By and Watch
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Citizens Enter the Laboratory Whilst Scientists Take to the Streets
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3.1 From Two Stubborn Parents to Seven Thousand Square Metres of Laboratory
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3.2 Childhood Leukaemia in Woburn: “Hybrid Forums” and the Co- production of Knowledge
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3.3 Technoscience Debated in the Courts
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3.4 From Users to Innovators: How a Windsurfer Kept Himself Afloat and Became Something of a Designer
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3.5 Everyone Around a Table: Promoting Civic Participation in Technoscience
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3.6 Science and Public Participation: A General Interpretative Framework
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3.7 The “March of the Test-Tubes”: Scientists Take to the Streets
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Beyond Technocracy: Democracy in the Age of Technoscience
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4.1 Beyond the Illusions of Technocracy
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4.2 Will Bioethics Save Us?
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4.3 Why Are Citizens Against Biotechnologies?
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4.4 Knowledge Is Power
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4.5 The Presumed Neutrality of Technoscience
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4.6 The Horse that Knew How to Do Sums
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4.7 The Crisis of the “Double Delegation”
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4.8 “Etsi Veritas Non Daretur”
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4.9 Choosing the World We Want
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Bibliography
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