Controversy: Politics of Technical Decisions

This book of controversies over science and technology describes and analyses the struggles between different perspectives: between those who see technological development as a rational and objective process and those who see this process as primarily political.'No one has produced a more formidable body of work on technology, politics, and decision-making than Dorothy Nelkin; and I, like many others, have come to look forward to each new instalment. Controversy, a set of case studies edited by Nelkin...easily earns its place on my bookshelf.' -- Knowledge, Vol 1 No 4, June 1980Nelkin, Dorothy is the author of 'Controversy: Politics of Technical Decisions', published 1979 under ISBN 9780803912106 and ISBN 0803912102.