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For the most current, comprehensive resource in this rapidly evolving field, look no further than the Revised Edition of the Handbook of Science and Technology Studies. This masterful volume is the first resource in more than 15 years to define, summarize, and synthesize this complex multidisciplinary, international field. Tightly edited with contributions by an internationally recognized team of leading scholars, this volume addresses the crucial contemporary issues—both traditional and nonconventional—social studies, political studies, and humanistic studies in this changing field. Containing theoretical essays, extensive literature reviews, and detailed case studies, this remarkable volume clearly sets the standard for the field. It does nothing less than establish itself as the benchmark, one that will carry the field well into the next century.
Science and Technology in Less Developed Countries
Science and Technology in Less Developed Countries
It is not unusual for scientists to eat their subjects.
THE literature on science and technology in less developed countries (LDCs) is immense and interdisciplinary, but not predominantly academic in character. It would be easy to damn much of it for lack of systematicity, methodological sophistication, and theoretical grounding. A good deal more of it could be condemned for its polemics, idealistic models, and naive assumptions. What must be kept in view, however, is that many of its contributors do not have as their exclusive (or even primary) aim the enhancement of understanding. Instead, they focus on ...
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