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Jasanoff, Sheila Sen was born on February 15, 1944 in Calcutta, Bengal, India. Daughter of Sudhir and Kamala (Gupta) Sen. came to the United States, 1956.
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Risk Management and Political Culture (Social research perspectives)
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This unique comparative study looks at efforts to regulate carcinogenic chemicals in several Western democracies, including the United States, and finds marked national differences in how conflicting scientific interpretations and competing political interests are resolved. Whether risk issues are referred to expert committees without public debate or debated openly in a variety of forums, patterns of interaction among experts, policy makers, and the public reflect fundamental features of each country's political culture. "A provocative argument....Poses interesting questions for the sociology of science, especially science produced for public debate."—Contemporary Sociology A Volume in the Russell Sage Foundation's Social Science Frontiers Series
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Science at the Bar: Law, Science, and Technology in America (Twentieth Century Fund Books/Reports/Studies) by Sheila Jasanoff (1997-09-30)
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The Fifth Branch: Science Advisers as Policymakers by Jasanoff, Sheila(August 19, 1998) Paperback
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Science at the Bar: Law, Science, and Technology in America (Twentieth Century Fund Books/Reports/studies) (Paperback) - Common
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An examination of how two powerful American institutions interact with each other. The book argues that the courts do not simply depend on scientific findings for guidance, but they actually influence the production of science and technology.
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Risk Management and Political Culture (Social research perspectives) by Sheila Jasanoff (1986-07-02)
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The Fifth Branch: Science Advisers as Policymakers
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How can decisionmakers charged with protecting the environment and the public's health and safety steer clear of false and misleading scientific research? Is it possible to give scientists a stronger voice in regulatory processes without yielding too much control over policy, and how can this be harmonized with democratic values? These are just some of the many controversial and timely questions that Sheila Jasanoff asks in this study of the way science advisers shape federal policy. In their expanding role as advisers, scientists have emerged as a formidable fifth branch of government. But even though the growing dependence of regulatory agencies on scientific and technical information has granted scientists a greater influence on public policy, opinions differ as to how those contributions should be balanced against other policy concerns. More important, who should define what counts as good science when all scientific claims incorporate social factors and are subject to negotiation? Jasanoff begins by describing some significant failures--such as nitrites, Love Canal, and alar--in administrative and judicial decisionmaking that fed the demand for more peer review of regulatory science. In analyzing the nature of scientific claims and methods used in policy decisions, she draws comparisons with the promises and limitations of peer review in scientific organizations operating outside the regulatory context. The discussion of advisory mechanisms draws on the author's close scrutiny of two highly visible federal agencies--the Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration. Here we see the experts in action as they deliberate on critical issues such as clean air, pesticide regulation, and the safety of pharmaceuticals and food additives. Jasanoff deftly merges legal and institutional analysis with social studies of science and presents a strong case for procedural reforms. In so doing, she articulates a social-construction model that is intended to buttress the effectiveness of the fifth branch.
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The Fifth Branch: Science Advisers as Policymakers by Sheila Jasanoff (1998-08-19)
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By Sheila Jasanoff - The Fifth Branch: Science Advisers as Policymakers: 1st (first) Edition
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Science at the Bar: Law, Science, and Technology in America (Twentieth Century Fund Books/Reports/Studies)
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Issues spawned by the headlong pace of developments in science and technology fill the courts. How should we deal with frozen embryos and leaky implants, dangerous chemicals, DNA fingerprints, and genetically engineered animals? The realm of the law, to which beleaguered people look for answers, is sometimes at a loss--constrained by its own assumptions and practices, Sheila Jasanoff suggests. This book exposes American law's long-standing involvement in constructing, propagating, and perpetuating a variety of myths about science and technology. Science at the Bar is the first book to examine in detail how two powerful American institutions--both seekers after truth--interact with each other. Looking at cases involving product liability, medical malpractice, toxic torts, genetic engineering, and life and death, Jasanoff argues that the courts do not simply depend on scientific findings for guidance--they actually influence the production of science and technology at many different levels. Research is conducted and interpreted to answer legal questions. Experts are selected to be credible on the witness stand. Products are redesigned to reduce the risk of lawsuits. At the same time the courts emerge here as democratizing agents in disputes over the control and deployment of new technologies, advancing and sustaining a public dialogue about the limits of expertise. Jasanoff shows how positivistic views of science and the law often prevent courts from realizing their full potential as centers for a progressive critique of science and technology. With its lucid analysis of both scientific and legal modes of reasoning, and its recommendations for scholars and policymakers, this book will be an indispensable resource for anyone who hopes to understand the changing configurations of science, technology, and the law in our litigious society.
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Risk Management and Political Culture: A Comparative Study of Science in the Policy Context (Social research perspectives) by Sheila Jasanoff (1986-07-01)
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Following the increase in scientific influence on US public policy, opinions vary as to how scientific contributions should be balanced against other policy concerns. This text advocates procedural reforms, proposing a social-construction model that reinforces this "fifth branch" of the government.
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- Controlling Chemicals: The Politics of Regulation in Europe and the United States (Book by Brickman, Ronald, Jasanoff, Sheila, Ilgen, Thomas)
Sheila Sen Jasanoff
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AB, Radcliffe College, 1964; Master of Arts, U. Bonn, Germany, 1966; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1973; Juris Doctor, Harvard University, 1976.
Career
Associate, Bracken, Selig & Baram, Boston, 1976-1978; research associate, senior research associate, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1978-1984; associate professor, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, 1984-1989; professor, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, 1990-1998; professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, since 1998.
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The Fifth Branch: Science Advisers as Policymakers
( How can decisionmakers charged with protecting the envi...)
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Risk Management and Political Culture (Social research perspectives)
( This unique comparative study looks at efforts to regul...)
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The Fifth Branch: Science Advisers as Policymakers (Paperback) - Common
(Following the increase in scientific influence on US publ...)
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Science at the Bar: Law, Science, and Technology in America (Twentieth Century Fund Books/Reports/Studies)
( Issues spawned by the headlong pace of developments in ...)
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Science at the Bar: Law, Science, and Technology in America (Twentieth Century Fund Books/Reports/studies) (Paperback) - Common
(An examination of how two powerful American institutions ...)
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Controlling Chemicals: The Politics of Regulation in Europe and the United States
(Book by Brickman, Ronald, Jasanoff, Sheila, Ilgen, Thomas)
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The Fifth Branch: Science Advisers as Policymakers by Jasanoff, Sheila(August 19, 1998) Paperback
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The Fifth Branch: Science Advisers as Policymakers by Sheila Jasanoff (1998-08-19)
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By Sheila Jasanoff - The Fifth Branch: Science Advisers as Policymakers: 1st (first) Edition
(Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include compa...)
- Science at the Bar: Law, Science, and Technology in America (Twentieth Century Fund Books/Reports/Studies) by Sheila Jasanoff (1997-09-30)
- Risk Management and Political Culture (Social research perspectives) by Sheila Jasanoff (1986-07-02)
- Risk Management and Political Culture: A Comparative Study of Science in the Policy Context (Social research perspectives) by Sheila Jasanoff (1986-07-01)
- The Fifth Branch: Science Advisers as Policymakers Paperback 1998 (Author) Sheila Jasanoff
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The Fifth Branch: Science Advisers as Policymakers
Membership
Member advisory panel National Science Foundation, Washington, 1990-1992. Committee member NAS, Washington, 1991-1996. Advising committee member House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, Washington, 1992-1993.
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science (board directors since 1996). Member Society for Social Studies of Science (county member 1989-1992, president-elect 1998), Sigma Xi.
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Married Jay Harold Jasanoff, June 15, 1968. Children: Alan Pradip, Maya Ruth.
