Science in the Public Sphere: A history of lay knowledge and expertise

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First published in Spanish in 2011 with the title: Los paublicos de la ciencia: expertos y profanos a travaes de la historia (Madrid: Marcial Pons, Ediciones de Historia).

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781138909526
ISBN-10: 1138909521
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 29 black & white halftones
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate

Cuprins

List of figures. Preface. 1. Introduction: The Discontent of Scientific Culture. 2. Printed Science. 3. Spectacular Science. 4. Heterodox Science. 5. Classroom Science. 6. Technological Science. 7. Media Science. 8. Democratic Science. 9. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index.

Notă biografică

Agustí Nieto-Galan is a professor of History of Science, and Director of the Centre d’Història de la Ciència (CEHIC) at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). He has written widely on the history of chemistry and natural dyestuffs, and on the history of science popularization (eighteenth to twentieth centuries). His publications include Barcelona: An urban history of science and modernity: 1888-1929 (co-editor, 2015) and Popularizing Science and Technology in the European Periphery, 1800-2000 (co-editor, 2009).

Recenzii

"In deftly written case-studies, Agustí Nieto-Galan guides the reader through the complex public sphere of western science as it has evolved since the Renaissance. The book’s combination of scholarly authority, a consistently international perspective, and sharp analysis marks it as a landmark study. In addition to offering a much-needed historical account, Science in the Public Sphere raises important issues for those engaged in popularisation in our own age of widespread discontent with the culture of science. This is big-picture writing of the highest order."
Robert Fox, University of Oxford, UK
"In this insightful and fascinating book, Agusti Nieto-Galan provides the first comprehensive account of the growth and establishment of scientific culture. This is not a book about science, therefore, but about its popularisation, its emergence to a dominant position in the public sphere, and its increasing impact upon all walks of life. To know ourselves, we need to know about the culture of science and this book is an indispensable guide."
John Henry, University of Edinburgh, UK
"In this fascinating book, Agusti Nieto-Galan draws on experience of a wide range of countries and publics to show how this top-down popularization did not work. The public was not as stupid as had been imagined: scientists found that they were not uncritically respected but had to engage properly and justify themselves - and the place of science, essential but distrusted, in our world has become more contentious and more interesting. The book is an eye-opener."
David M. Knight, Durham University, UK
"Science in the Public Sphere is a book about the many actors that contribute to shape science through networks of communication that transcend the outdated model of top-down popularization. Drawing on a vast pool of case studies from both the so-called scientific centres and the peripheries, Nieto-Galán brilliantly illustrates Ludwig Fleck’s idea that every single event of scientific communication actually constructs science. I strongly recommend this book not only to historians of science but also to journalsits, science policy-makers and anyone interested in the intricate relations between science and society."
Jaume Navarro, University of the Basque Country, Spain

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