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Clinical Sciences and Technology in Socio-Cultural Context
Author(s): Donald Bolano* and Bill Carey
The social study of science and technology is an emerging interdisciplinary field of research and theory that analyzes the production and dissemination of science and technology as a sociocultural endeavor. This body of work suggests that science is social and political in ways that cannot adequately be described as simple bias. It offers ways of looking at such phenomena as the establishment of research agendas the dynamics of controversies and competing truth claims the social consequences of new technologies unintended discriminatory effects of science and technology and the cultural assumptions embedded in the on the ground uses of medical technologies... View More»