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The Plausibility of Future Scenarios
Conceptualising an Unexplored Criterion in Scenario Planning
What does it mean if scenarios about the future are plausible? The book analyses the unexplored concept and its implications for producers and users of scenarios.
Sustainable Development in Science Policy-Making
The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research's Policies for International Cooperation in Sustainability Research
This book focuses on German science policy for cooperation with the Global South, arguing that instead of global sustainability, policies mainly aspire to German economic benefits.
The Techno-Apparatus of Bodily Production
A New Materialist Theory of Technology and the Body
What is needed is a story of bodily agency and technological failure instead of the same old tales of the disciplining of the body through science and technology.
The Construction of Analogy-Based Research Programs
The Lock-and-Key Analogy in 20th Century Biochemistry
By reconstructing the history of the lock-and-key analogy in fields of biochemistry and molecular biology, this book reveals new aspects of the mutual interactions between analogy usage, model building and research development.
Michael Friedman
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Wolfgang Schäffner
(eds.)
On Folding
Towards a New Field of Interdisciplinary Research
Folding offers new ways to think about the relationship of matter, form and code. This anthology inaugurates a new interdisciplinary field under this conceptual turn.
Emma Domínguez-Rué
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Linda Nierling
(eds.)
Ageing and Technology
Perspectives from the Social Sciences
Taking the human being and not technology first may help us to adapt technologies to the people that created the need for its existence, thus contributing to improve the quality of life of senior citizens.
Peter Weingart
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Britta Padberg
(eds.)
University Experiments in Interdisciplinarity
Obstacles and Opportunities
Some recent structural reforms in Western universities reflect fundamental changes in the organization of knowledge production and teaching. This publication wants to take a fresh look at the meaning given to the concept of interdisciplinarity with these reforms.
Nina Möllers
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Karin Zachmann
(eds.)
Past and Present Energy Societies
How Energy Connects Politics, Technologies and Cultures
Abundant, salutary, problematic – energy shapes history. The volume analyzes discourses of energy and their materialization into technical systems, media and consumer practice.
Implanted Minds
The Neuroethics of Intracerebral Stem Cell Transplantation and Deep Brain Stimulation
An up-to-date contribution on ethical questions of modern medicine: do procedures like deep brain stimulation or stem cell transplants interfere with one's personality?
The Diversification of Health
Politics of Large-Scale Cooperation in Nutrition Science
Health in a parallel universe – how nutritional science solves its problem by multiplying ideas of health.