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Edited Books
Articles and Book Chapters
Editorials and Commentaries
Essay Reviews
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Books and Monographs (BACK TO TOP)

Designs on Nature: Science and Democracy in Europe and the United States
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005).

Science at the Bar: Law, Science, and Technology in America, a Twentieth
Century Fund book (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995);
paperback edition 1997; Italian translation La Scienza davanti ai Giudici
(Milan: Giuffr, 2001).

The Fifth Branch: Science Advisers as Policymakers (Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 1990); paperback edition 1994.

Risk Management and Political Culture (New York: Russell Sage Foundation,
1986).

Controlling Chemicals: The Politics of Regulation in Europe and the U.S.
(with R. Brickman and T. Ilgen) (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press,
1985).

Edited Books (BACK TO TOP)

Co-editor (with Marybeth Long Martello) (with co-authored introduction, conclusion; sole-authored chapter), Earthly Politics: Local and Global in Environmental Governance (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004).

Editor (with introduction, conclusion and chapter), States of Knowledge:
The Co-Production of Science and Social Order (London: Routledge, 2004).

Section Editor, Science and Technology Studies, International Encyclopedia
of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (Oxford: Elsevier, 2001).

Editor (with introduction), Comparative Science and Technology Policy
(Cheltenham, Glos., UK: Edward Elgar, 1997).

Co-Editor (with G. Markle, J. Petersen, T. Pinch), Handbook of Science and
Technology Studies (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1995).

Editor (with introduction), Learning From Disaster: Risk Management After
Bhopal (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994).

Articles and Book Chapters (BACK TO TOP)

“Representation and Re-Presentation in Litigation Science,” in Environmental Health Perspectives (forthcoming).

“Making Order: Law and Science in Action,” in E, Hackett et al., eds., New Handbook of Science and Technology Studies (MIT Press, forthcoming).

“Taking Life: Private Rights in Public Nature,” in K. Sunder Rajan, ed., Lively Capital (forthcoming).

“Risk in Hindsight: Toward a Politics of Reflection," in I.K. Richter, S. Berking and R. Müller-Schmid, eds., Risk Society and the Culture of Precaution (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). pp28-46.

“Transparency in Public Science: Purposes, Reasons, Limits," Law and Contemporary Problems , 69:3 (2006), pp. 21-45.

"Biotechnology and Empire: The Global Power of Seeds and Science", Osiris 21.1 (2006): 273-292.

"Just Evidence:  The Limits of Science in the Legal Process," Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Volume 34:2 (2006), pp. 328-341

"Technology as a Site and Object of Politics", in C. Tilly and R. Goodin, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006). pp.745-763.

"The Value of Legality in Environmental Action", in J. Bauer, ed., Forging Environmentalism: Justice, Livelihood, and Contested Environments (Armonk, NY: ME Sharpe, 2006). pp.329-346.

“Science and Environmental Citizenship,” in P. Dauvergne, ed.,  Handbook of Global  Environmental  Politics  (Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK. Northampton, MA, USA, 2005), pp. 365-382.

“In the Democracies of DNA: Ontological Uncertainty and Political Order in Three States, “ New Genetics and Society, Vol. 24, No. 3 (2005), pp. 139-155.

"Restoring Reason: Causal Narratives and Political Culture,” in B. Hutter and M. Power, eds., Organizational Encounters with Risk (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), pp. 209-232.

"Judgment under Siege: The Three-Body Problem of Expert Legitimacy,” in P. Weingart and S. Maasen, eds., Democratization of Expertise? Exploring Novel Forms of Scientific Advice in Political Decision-Making, Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook (Springer, 2005). pp. 209-224.

"Let Them Eat Cake: GM Foods and the Democratic Imagination", in M. Leach, I. Scoones and B. Wynne, eds., Science and Citizens (London: Zed Books, 2005), pp. 183-199.

"Adjudicating the GM Food Wars: Science, Risk, and Democracy in World Trade Law” (co-authored with D. Winickoff, L. Busch, R. Grove-White, and B. Wynne), Yale Journal of International Law, Vol. 30 (2005), pp. 81-123.

"Law’s Knowledge: Science for Justice in Legal Settings," in American Journal of Public Health, Vol 95, No. S1 (2005), pp. S49-S58; adapted as “The Epistemic Discretion of Judges and Daubert’s Legacy,” in A. Santosuosso et al., eds., Science, Law and the Courts ion Europe (Pavia: Collegio Ghisleri, 2004), pp. 37-53.

"DNA’s Identity Crisis, " in D. Lazer, ed., DNA and the Criminal Justice System: The Technology of Justice (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004), pp. 337-355.

"Welfare State or Welfare Court: Asbestos Litigation in Comparative Perspective” (with D. Perese), Journal of Law and Policy, Vol. XII, No. 2 (2004), pp. 619-639.

"(No?) Accounting for Expertise?” Science and Public Policy, Vol. 30, No. 3 (2003), pp. 157-162.

"In a Constitutional Moment: Science and Social Order at the Millennium,"in B. Joerges and H. Nowotny, eds., Social Studies of Science and Technology: Looking Back, Ahead, Yearbook of the Sociology of the Sciences (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2003), pp. 155-180.

“Technologies of Humility: Citizen Participation in Governing Science,” Minerva, Vol. 41 (2003), pp. 223-244; reprinted in A. Bogner and H. Torgersen, eds., Wozu Experten? Ambivalenzen der Beziehung von Wissenschaft und Politik (Wiesbaden: Verlag fur Sozialwissenschaften, 2005), pp. 370-389; adapted and reprinted in C. Mitcham, ed., Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics (New York: Macmillan Reference, 2005), p. xix-xxvi

"A Living Legacy: The Precautionary Ideal in American Law, " in Joel
Tickner, ed., Precaution, Environmental Science, and Preventive Public
Policy (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2003), pp. 227-240.

"New Modernities: Reimagining Science, Technology, and Development,"
Environmental Values (Special Issue on Science, Development and
Democracy), Vol. 11, No. 3 (2002), pp. 253-276.

"Citizens at Risk: Cultures of Modernity in Europe and the U.S., "Science
as Culture , Vol. 11, No. 3 (2002), pp. 363-380.

"The Life Sciences and the Rule of Law, " Journal of Molecular Biology, Vol.
319, No. 4 (2002), pp. 891-899.

"Science and the Statistical Victim: Modernizing Knowledge in Breast
Implant Litigation," Social Studies of Science, Vol. 32, No. 1 (2002), pp.
37-69.

"Hidden Experts: Judging Science after Daubert," in V. Weil, ed., Trying
Times: Science and Responsibilities after Daubert, Chicago, Illinois
Institute of Technology (2001), pp. 30-47.

“Ordering Life: Law and the Normalization of Biotechnology,” Politeia, Vol. XVII, No. 62 (2001), pp. 34-50.

“Image and Imagination: The Formation of Global Environmental Consciousness,” in P. Edwards and C. Miller, eds., Changing the Atmosphere: Expert Knowledge and Environmental Governance (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001), pp. 309-337.

"Judicial Fictions: The Supreme Courts Quest for Good Science," Society,
Vol. 38, No. 4 (2001), pp. 27-36.

"Technological Risk and Cultures of Rationality, " in National Research
Council, Incorporating Science, Economics, and Sociology in Developing
Sanitary and Phytosanitary Standards in International Trade, Proceedings
of a Conference (Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2000), pp.
65-84.

"The 'Science Wars' and American Politics, "in M. Dierkes and C. v. Grote,
eds., Between Understanding and Trust: The Public, Science, and
Technology (Reading, UK: Harwood Academic, 2000), pp. 39-59.
 

"STS and Public Policy: Getting Beyond Deconstruction, " Science, Technology
and Society, Vol. 4, No. 1 (1999), pp. 59-72.

"The Songlines of Risk," Environmental Values, Vol. 8, No. 2, (1999), pp. 135-152.

"Contingent Knowledge: Implications for Implementation and Compliance, " in
H. Jacobson and E. Brown Weiss, eds., Engaging Countries: Strengthening
Compliance with International Environmental Accords (Cambridge, MA: MIT
Press, 1998), pp. 63-87.

"Expert Games in Silicone Gel Breast Implant Litigation,"  in M. Freeman and
H. Reece, eds., Science in Court (London: Dartmouth, 1998), pp. 83-107.

"The Eye of Everyman: Witnessing DNA in the Simpson Trial, " Social Studies
of Science, Vol. 28, No. 5-6, pp. 713-740 (1998).

"Coming of Age in Science and Technology Studies," Science Communication,
Vol. 20, No. 1 (1998), pp. 91-98.

"Harmonization: The Politics of Reasoning Together," in R. Bal and W.
Halffman, eds., The Politics of Chemical Risk: Scenarios for a Regulatory
Future (Dordrecht, NL: Kluwer, 1997), pp. 173-194.

"The Political Science of Risk Perception," Reliability Engineering and
System Safety, Vol. 59, No. 1 (1998), pp. 91-99.

"Science and Decisionmaking "(with B. Wynne and contributing authors), in S.
Rayner and E.L. Malone, eds., Human Choice and Climate Change (Washington, DC: Battelle Press, 1998), pp. 1-87.

"Science and Judgment in Environmental Standard-setting," Applied
Measurement in Education, Vol. 11, No. 1 (1998), pp. 107-120.

"Civilization and Madness: The Great BSE Scare of 1996, " Public
Understanding of Science, Vol. 6 (1997), pp. 221-232.

"NGOs and the Environment: From Knowledge to Action, " Third World
Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 3 (1997), pp. 579-594; reprinted in T.G. Weiss,
ed., Beyond UN Subcontracting: Task-Sharing with Regional Security
Arrangements and Service-providing NGOs (New York: St. Martin's Press,
1998), pp. 203-223.

"Research Subpoenas and the Sociology of Knowledge, " Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 59, No. 3 (1996), pp. 95-118.

"Compelling Knowledge in Public Decisions," in L.A. Brooks and S. VanDeveer, eds., Saving the Seas: Values, Scientists, and International Governance (College Park, MD: Maryland Sea Grant, 1996), pp. 229-252.

"Knowledge and Distrust: The Dilemma of Environmental Democracy, " Issues in Science and Technology, Vol. 13, No. 1 (1996), pp. 63-70.

"Science and Norms in International Environmental Regimes," in F.O. Hampson and J. Reppy, eds.,  Earthly Goods: Environmental Chang and  Social Justice (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996), pp. 173-197.

"Is Science Socially Constructed -- And Can It Still Inform Public Policy?,"
Science and Engineering Ethics, Vol. 2, No. 3 (1996), pp. 263-276.

"Beyond Epistemology: Relativism and Engagement in the Politics of
Science, " Social Studies of Science, Vol. 26, No. 2 (1996), pp. 393-418.

"Product, Process, or Programme: Three Cultures and the Regulation of
Biotechnology, " in M. Bauer, ed., Resistance to New Technology (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1995), pp. 311-331.

"Boundary Exercises: The Making of Good Science in the Regulatory Process," Shepard's Expert and Scientific Evidence, Vol. 2, No. 1 (1994), pp. 25-40.

"Innovation and Integrity in Biomedical Research," Academic Medicine, Vol.
68, No. 9 (1993), pp. S91-S95.

"Bridging the Two Cultures of Risk Analysis, " Risk Analysis, Vol. 13, No. 2
(1993), pp. 123-129; adapted and abbreviated as "Relating Risk Assessment
and Risk Management, " EPA Journal, Vol. 19, No. 1 (January-March 1993), pp. 35-37.

"Procedural Choices in Regulatory Science," RISK - Issues in Health and
Safety, Vol. 4, No. 2 (1993), pp. 143-160; adapted and reprinted in
Technology in Society, Vol. 17, No. 3 (1995), pp. 279-293.

"India at the Crossroads in Global Warming Policy," Global Environmental
Change, Vol. 3, No. 1 (1993), pp. 32-52.

"Science, Politics, and the Renegotiation of Expertise at EPA", Osiris, Vol.
7 (1992), pp. 195-217.

"Pluralism and Convergence in International Science Policy," in N. Keyfitz,
ed., Science and Sustainability: Selected Papers on IIASA's 20th
Anniversary (Laxenburg, Austria: IIASA, 1992), pp. 157-180; reprinted in
H. Nowotny and K. Taschwer, eds., The Sociology of Science (Cheltenham,
UK: Edward Elgar, forthcoming).

"What Judges Should Know about the Sociology of Science, " Jurimetrics, Vol.
32, No. 3 (1992), pp. 345-359; adapted and updated in Judicature, Vol. 77,
No. 2 (1993), pp. 77-82.

"Knowledge, Responsibility, and the Safe Use of Chemicals," in M.L.
Richardson, ed., Risk Management of Chemicals (London: Royal Society of
Chemistry, 1992), pp. 337-351.

"Acceptable Evidence in a Pluralistic Society,"  in R. Hollander and D. Mayo,
eds., Acceptable Evidence: Science and Values in Hazard Management (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), pp. 29-47.

"Does Public Understanding Influence Public Policy?" Chemistry and Industry,
No. 17 (1991), pp. 537-540.

"Cross-National Differences in Policy Implementation," Evaluation Review,
Vol. 15, No. 1 (1991), pp. 103-119.

"American Exceptionalism and the Political Acknowledgment of Risk,"
Daedalus, Vol. 119, No. 4 (1991), pp. 61-81; reprinted in E.J. Burger,
Jr., ed., Risk (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1993), pp.
61-81.

"Judicial Construction of New Scientific Evidence,"in P.T. Durbin, ed.,
Critical Perspectives on Nonacademic Science and Engineering (Bethlehem,
PA: Lehigh University Press, 1991), pp. 215-238; adapted as Science on
the Witness Stand, Issues in Science and Technology, Vol. 6, No. 1,
(1989), pp. 80-87.

"Public Science for Public Policy,"  Technology Review, Vol. 92, No. 2,
February/March 1989, pp. 26, 28, 78.

"Public Participation in Science Policy," Chemistry in Britain, Vol. 25, No.
4, (1989), pp. 368-370.

"The Problem of Rationality in U.S. Health and Safety Regulation," in R.
Smith and B. Wynne, eds., Expert Evidence: Interpreting Science in the
Law (London: Routledge, 1989), pp. 151-183.

"Reasoning About Risk,"  in M.L. Richardson, ed., Risk Assessment of
Chemicals in the Environment (London: Royal Society of Chemistry. 1988),
pp. 92-113.

"The Bhopal Disaster and the Right to Know, " Social Science and Medicine,
Vol. 27, No. 10 (1988), pp. 1113-1123.

"Judicial Gatekeeping in the Management of Hazardous Technologies," Journalof Management Studies, Vol. 25, No. 4 (1988), pp. 353-371; adapted as Law's Divided Response to Risk, in A. Flores, ed., Ethics and Risk
Management in Engineering. (University Press of America, 1989), pp.
93-115.

"Biology and the Bill of Rights: Can Science Reframe the Constitution?"
American Journal of Law and Medicine, Vol. 13, Nos. 2/3 (1987), pp. 249-289.

"EPA's Regulation of Daminozide: Unscrambling the Messages of Risk,"
Science, Technology, and Human Values, Vol. 12, Nos. 3/4 (1987), pp.
116-124.

"Cultural Aspects of Risk Assessment in Britain and the United States, " in
B.B. Johnson and V.T. Covello, eds., The Social and Cultural
Construction of Risk (New York: Reidel Press, 1987), pp. 359-397.

"Contested Boundaries in Policy-Relevant Science," Social Studies of
Science, Vol. 17, No. 2 (1987), pp. 195-230.

"Science and the Courts: Advice for a Troubled Marriage,"  Natural
Resources and Environment, Vol. II, No. 3 (1986), pp. 3-5, 51-52.

"Comparative Risk Assessment: The Lessons of Cultural Variation," in M.L.
Richardson, ed., Toxic Hazard Assessment of Chemicals (London: Royal
Society of Chemistry, 1986), pp. 259-281.

"Managing India's Environment: New Opportunities, New Perspectives,"
Environment, Vol. 28, No. 8 (1986), pp. 12-16, 31-38.

"Risk, Uncertainty, and the Legal Process," in W.Y. Garner et al., eds.,
Evaluation of Pesticides in Ground Water, ACS Symposium Series 315
(Washington, D.C.: American Chemical Society, 1986), pp. 462-475;
reprinted in D. Chubin and E. Chu, eds. Science off the Pedestal: Social
Perspectives on Science and Technology (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth
Publishing, 1988), pp. 41-51.

"Peer Review in the Regulatory Process,"  Science, Technology, and Human
Values, Vol. 10., No. 3  (1985), pp. 20-32.

"The Misrule of Law at OSHA,"  in D. Nelkin, ed., The Language of Risk
(Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1985), pp. 155-178.

"Remedies Against Hazardous Exports: Compensation, Products Liability and
Criminal Sanctions, " in J. Ives, ed., The Export of Hazards:
Trans-national Corporations and Environmental Control Issues (London:
Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985), pp. 142-160; also published in
Multi-national Monitor, Vol. 5, No. 9 (1984), pp. 14-17.

"Legitimating Private Sector Risk Analysis: A U.S.-European Comparison,"
in C. Whipple and V. Covello, eds., Risk Analysis in the Private Sector
(New York: Plenum Press, 1985), pp. 233-242.

"Technological Innovation in a Corporatist State: The Case of
Biotechnology in the Federal Republic of Germany,"  Research Policy, Vol.
14 (1985), pp. 23-38.

"Compensation Issues Related to LP/HC Events: The Case of Toxic
Chemicals,"  in R. Waller and V. Covello, eds., Low-Probability,
High-Consequence Risk Analysis (New York: Plenum Press, 1984), pp.
361-371.

"Negotiation or Cost-Benefit Analysis: A Middle Road for U.S. Policy?"  The
Environmental Forum, Vol. 2 (1983), pp. 37-43.

"Science and the Limits of Administrative Rule-Making: Lessons From the
OSHA Cancer Policy,"  Osgoode Hall Law Journal, Vol. 20 (1982), pp. 536-561.

"Science, Technology and the Limits of Judicial Competence " (with D.
Nelkin), Science, New Series, Vol. 214, No. 4526 (December 1981);  pp. 1211-1215.  Reprinted in Jurimetrics, Vol. 11 (Spring 1982); American Bar Association Journal, Vol. 68 (1982); W.A. Thomas, ed., Science and Law: An Essential Alliance (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1983); R.W. Lake, ed., Resolving Locational Conflict (New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research, 1987).  

"Concepts of Risk and Safety in Toxic Substances Regulation: A
Comparison of France and the United States"  (with R. Brickman), Policy
Studies Journal, Vol. 9, No. 3  (1980), pp. 394-403; reprinted in D.E. Mann, ed.,
Environmental Policy Formation (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1981).

Editorials and Commentaries (BACK TO TOP)

“Bhopal’s Trials of Knowledge and Ignorance,” Isis (forthcoming).

"Science and Citizenship: A New Synergy,” Science and Public Policy, Vol. 31, No. 2 (2004), pp. 90-94.

"Breaking the Waves in Science Studies", Commentary, Social Studies of Science, Vol. 33, No. 3 (2003), pp. 389-400.

"Hard Facts and Soft Law: Iraq, Bush, and the Case for Multilateralism",
(with David Winickoff), published by Opendemocracy.com, November 18, 200, http://www.opendemocracy.net/theme_9-wmd/article_762.jsp.

"Election 2000 Mechanical Error or System Failure"? Social Studies of
Science Vol. 31, No. 3 (2001), pp. 461-467.

"Talking About Science, " Commentary, Science and Engineering Ethics, Vol. 6,
No. 4 (2001), pp. 525-528.

"Between Risk and Precaution: Reassessing the Future of Genetically
Modified Crops", in Journal of Risk Research, Vol. 3, No. 3 (2000), pp.
277-282.

"Back to Basics in Environmental Politics", Response to L.K. Caldwell,
Politics and the Life Sciences Vol. 18, No. 2 (1999), pp. 227-229.

"Conversations with the Community: AAAS at the Millennium" (with
co-authors), Science, Vol. 278, No. 5346 (1997), pp. 2066-2067.

"Cooperation for What?: A View from the Sociological/Cultural Study of
Science Policy, "Response to Labinger, Social Studies of Science, Vol. 25,
No. 2 (1995), pp. 314-317.

"Norms for Evaluating Regulatory Science", guest editorial, Risk Analysis,
Vol. 9, No. 3(1989), pp. 271-273.

"Becoming an Expert Witness" (with J. Gillett), The Scientist, February 23,
1987, pp. 14, 28.

"Peer Review and Public Policy "(with D. Chubin), Science, Technology, and
Human Values, Vol. 10, No. 52 (1985), pp. 3-5.
 

Essay Reviews (BACK TO TOP)

“Clones and critics in the age of biocapital," review of Francis Fukuyama, Our post human future: Consequences of the biotechnology revolution (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2002) in BioSocieties, Vol.2. Part 2 2006:  pp. 266-269.

"What Inquiring Minds Should Want to Know", review of Philip Kitcher,
Science, Truth, and Democracy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001); in
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science , Vol. 35.1 2004: pp. 149-157.

"Not Proven: Truth by Exhaustion in the Baltimore Case", review of Daniel
J. Kevles, The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science, and
Character (New York: W.W. Norton, 1998); in Isis, Vol. 90, No. 4, (1999), pp. 781-783.

Noretta Koertge, ed., A House Built on Sand: Exposing Postmodern Myths
about Science (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998); review essay in
Science, Technology, and Human Values, Vol. 24, No. 4 (1999), pp. 495-500.

"Public Knowledge, Private Fears", review of Alan Irwin and Brian Wynne,
eds., Misunderstanding Science? The Public Reconstruction of Science and
Technology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996); in Social
Studies of Science, Vol. 27, No. 2 (1997), pp. 350-355.

Theodore M. Porter, Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in
Science and Public Life; in Metascience, Issue 9 (1996), pp. 82-87.

Other Book Reviews (BACK TO TOP)

More than 20 other reviews in journals including American Scientist, American Political Science Review, BioSocieties, BioScience, International Environmental Affairs, Isis, Issues in Science and Technology, Jurimetrics, Nature, Nature Biotechnology, Public Understanding of Science, Science, Science, Technology and Human Values, Social Studies of Science.