The Governance of Knowledge (Paperback)

Part I. The Emergence of Knowledge Politics: Origins, Context and Consequences 1. Knowledge Policy as the Task of Science: On Ethically Relevant Knowledge of Nature 2. Traditional Knowledge in Modern Society 3. In Search of Vehicles for Knowledge Governance: On the Need for Institutions that Creatively Destroy Social Capital
Part II. Major Social Institutions and Knowledge Politics 4. The Rising Relevance of Non-Explicit Knowledge under a New Regime of Knowledge Production 5. Policing Society: Genetics, Robotics, Nanotechnology 6. The New Human Zoo
Part III. Case Studies on the Governance of Knowledge: The Ineffective Governance of Science
7. Feedback Loops in the Politics of Knowledge Production 8. BSE and the Phillips Report: A Cautionary Tale about the Uptake of ‘Risk’ 9. Subjects of Knowledge: Epistemologies of the Consumer in the GM Food Debate
Part IV. Issues in Knowledge Politics as a New Political Field 10. The Use of Knowledge in the Legal System: The Relationship between Scientific Expertise and Legal Decisions 11. The Innovation Commons 12. Quasi-Science and the State: ‘Governing Science’ in Comparative Perspective
Concluding Observations: Free Flow of Information or Embedded Expertise? Notes on the Regulation of Knowledge
Reiner Grundmann