Shaping Science and Technology Policy: The Next Generation of Research
David H. Guston, Daniel Sarewitz (Editors)Shaping Science and Technology Policy brings together an exciting and diverse group of emerging scholars, both practitioners and academic experts, to investigate current issues in science and technology policy. Essays explore such topics as globalization, the shifting boundary between public and private, informed consent in human participation in scientific research, intellectual property and university science, and the distribution of the costs and benefits of research. With remarkable sophistication and ideological opennes the contributors demonstrate that organized scrutiny can provide a foundation for the next generation of real-world policy-making. Their perspectives are unified by the common recognition that science policy is explicitly related to the shaping of our world, and their work is an important step as Americans make the difficult choices about the science and technology that we create.
David H. Guston is professor of political science and associate director of the Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes at Arizona State University. He is the author of Between Politics and Science, winner of the American Political Science Association's Don K. Price Award.
Daniel Sarewitz is professor of science and society and director of the Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes at Arizona State University. His books include Frontiers of Illusion: Science, Technology, and the Politics of Progress.