Nations at Ease with Radical Knowledge

In response to the recent troubled history of risk-related technological development in Europe, one institutional reaction has been to advocate public deliberation as a means of achieving broad societal consensus over socio-scientific futures. We focus on 'consensusing' and the expectation...

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Published in:Social studies of science 2010-02, Vol.40 (1), p.105-126
Main Authors: Horst, Maja, Irwin, Alan
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