Procedural Choices in Regulatory Science

This paper compares four approaches to using science in regulatory decision making - one very similar to the Science Court proposal. Professor Jasanoff argues generally that that proposal would be less useful than procedures more sensitive to the distinctive characteristics of regulatory science

Research Subpoenas and the Sociology of Knowledge

Jasanoff says that the most effective way to integrate scientific knowledge fully and fairly into legal decisionmaking may be for judges to develop a keener sense of how science works

Implicaciones éticas, ambientales y sociales de la ciencia y la tecnología: retos futuros

El siglo XX trajo consigo la expansión masiva y la introducción a veces forzada de la ciencia y la tecnología en todos los aspectos de la vida humana: el transporte, las comunicaciones, la educación, el comercio, la agricultura, la reproducción humana, la medicina, la energía, la exploración del espacio y de los océanos, y –por supuesto– la guerra. En el siglo XXI debemos enfrentarnos a la urgente tarea de fomentar la capacidad humana para absorber, examinar críticamente y reflexionar sobre estos avances anteriores. Cómo hacerlo de manera eficiente y rigurosa es un reto futuro y una responsabilidad crítica para las universidades de todo el mundo.Peer Reviewe

Science and Technology for Humanity: An STS View from Singapore

With this short essay, we aim to raise awareness of the NTU Institute of Science and Technology for Humanity (NISTH) initiative and to invite our colleagues to partake in the research programs we hope to see initiated at NISTH in years to come. In particular, building on the launch of the Institute, supplemented by the extraordinary global experience of COVID-19, we suggest ways in which STS scholars from around the world might contribute to the public conversation regarding the 4IR and thereby also to the ways in which the relationships between technology, states, and citizens might be imagined with specific reference to Asia’s future