Titlebook: Science, Technology and Society; An Introduction Giampietro Gobo,Valentina Marcheselli Textbook 2022 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The

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Medicine and Biotechnologiesans and anthropologists have looked into medicine, questioning the nature of scientific knowledge in medical practice and its normalizing gaze. More recently, moving beyond the body, biologists have focused on the DNA code to try to find “the nature of life”. Falling short of its promises, the Human

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Textbook 2022ogy Studies (STS). The discipline breaks down traditional conceptions of knowledge as universal, neutral and ahistorical, and takes a more critical approach to science and technology as social embedded phenomena. This comprehensive textbook makes use of unique examples and case studies to illustrate

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Epistemology: The Foundations of Scientific Knowledgeas therefore fuelled to explain the fundamental aspects on which scientific knowledge is based and a series of methodological proposals were put forward to guide the correct construction of the same. The greatest contribution to this undertaking would be made by the movement of logical positivism and by the science philosopher Karl Popper.

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Environmentconsequences are stratified on multiple levels. For this reason, this chapter does not only focus on climate change, but addresses several instances in which “the environment” is culturally constructed.

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Five Challenges for the Futureit is necessary to follow their trajectories. This last chapter turns to five new fields of inquiry that are at the forefront of STS thinking, from multispecies ethnography to agriculture, risk and catastrophes, and pharmacogenomics, passing through the studies of sensory experience.

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Science and Technology: Two Sides of the Same CoinSince the inception of the field of STS, as the name itself suggests, scholars have looked into the relation among science, technology and society. This chapter retraces the development of the main theoretical frameworks that have been proposed to reveal how technology and society mutually shape each other.