Brian Balmer

Secrecy and Science

A Historical Sociology of Biological and Chemical Warfare

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on classical sociological writing on secrecy by Simmel, Merton and Shils Secrecy and Science draws on recently declassified documents to investigate significant episodes in the history of biological and chemical warfare. At the same time, it draws on more contemporary perspectives in science and technology studies that understand knowledge and social order as co-produced within heterogeneous networks of 'things and people' in order to develop a theoretical set of arguments about how the relationship between secrecy and science might be understood.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 268g
• ISBN-13: 9781138277281
• ISBN-10: 1138277282
• Artikelnr.: 57054050

Autorenporträt

Brian Balmer, Reader in Science Policy Studies, University College London, UK

Inhaltsangabe

List of Abbreviations
Preface and Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Secret Science
Chapter 2 Secrecy at Work: Scientists' Defence of Biological Warfare Research
Chapter 3 Making Secrets: Accidents, Experiments and the Production of Knowledge
Chapter 4 Keeping, Disclosing and Breaching Secrets: Classification and Security
Chapter 5 Secrecy, Doubt and Uncertainty: Power/Ignorance?
Chapter 6 Secrecy, Transparency and Public Relations: Opening Up Porton Down in the 'Year of the Barricades'
Chapter 7 Secret Spaces of Science: A Secret Formula, a Rogue Patent and Public Knowledge about Nerve Gas
Chapter 8 Opaque Science