عنوان

Absence in science, security and policy :

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1137493720

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1137493739

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1137493747

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1349552771

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9781137493729

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9781137493736

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9781137493743

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9781349552771

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b538789

Title Proper

Absence in science, security and policy :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

from research agendas to global strategy

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Brian Rappert and Brian Balmer.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Basingstoke

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Palgrave Macmillan

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2015

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

(264 pages : 2 illustrations

Series Title

Global issues series (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

Text of Note

Part I: Ways Of Seeing, Ways Of Not Seeing; 1. Sensing Absence: How to See What Isn't There in the Study of Science and Security; Brian Rappert; 2. An Open Day for Secrets: Biological Warfare, Stenganography, and Hiding Things in Plain Sight; Brian Balmer; Part II: Practices Of Inattention; 3. What ELSA Makes Small in Nanomedicine: Non-Concerns in Current Trends in STS; Michael Schillmeier; 4. Missing the Obvious --;Coping With Scientific And Technological Change In Chemcial and Biological Weapons Arms; 5. Control, 1968-2013; John Walker; 6. Non-News Values in Science Journalism; Felicity Mellor; 7. Project Jefferson: Technological Surprises and Critical Omissions; Kathleen Vogel; 8. Taking Care of Security in Synthetic Biology; Sam Weiss Evans and Emma Frow; Part III: Sights and Sensitivities; 9. What Counts as the Hostile Use of Chemicals?; James Revill and Brett Edwards; 10. A Phoenix of the Modern World: The Re-Emergence of National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity and its Implications for Scientific Practitoners; Gerald Walther and Malcolm Dando; 11. Causing Problems: Classification Of Humanitarian Concerns Regarding Explosive Weapons; Richard Moyes; 12. Concluding Absences; Brian Rappert and Brian Balmer.

Text of Note

This book explores the absent and missing in debates about science and security. Through varied case studies, including biological and chemical weapons control, science journalism, nanotechnology research and neuroethics, the contributors explore how matters become absent, ignored or forgotten and the implications for ethics, policy and society.

National security.

Science and state.

Technology and state.

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Book number

edited by Brian Rappert and Brian Balmer.

Brian Balmer

Brian Rappert

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