Contents of 1988-2004

Vol 18 / 2005
Number 1 - Number 2
Vol 17 / 2004
Number 1 - Number 2
Vol 16 / 2003
Number 1 - Number 2
Vol 15 / 2002
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Vol 14 / 2001
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Vol 13 / 2000
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Vol 12 / 1999
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Vol 11/ 1998
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Vol 10 / 1997
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Vol 9 / 1996
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Vol 8 / 1995
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Vol 7 / 1994
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Vol 6 / 1993
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Vol 5 / 1992
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Vol 4 / 1991
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Vol 3 / 1990
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Vol 2 / 1989
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Vol 1 / 1988
Number 1

Science Studies vol. 18 (2005) Number 2

Editorial:

Marja Häyrinen-Alestalo

Articles:

Roar Hostaker: Latour - Semiotics and Science Studies

Conor M.W. Douglas: Managing HuGE Expectations: Rhetorical Strategies in Human Genome Epidemiology

Heiner M. Fangerau: Making Eugenics a Public Issue: A Reception Study of the First German Compendium on Racial Hygiene, 1921-1940

Discussion:

Guillermo Foladori and Noela Invernizzi: Nanotechnology in its Socio-economic Context

Book Reviews:

Francis Remedios: Legitimizing Scientific Knowledge - An Introduction to Steve Fuller's Social Epistemology by Tomi Kokkonen

Sven Hemlin, Carl Martin Allwood and Ben R. Martin (eds.): Creative Knowledge Environments. The Influences on Creativity in Research and Innovation by Franc Mali

Robert Frodeman and Carl Mitcham(eds.): Toward a Philosophy of Science Policy: Approaches and Issues by Topi Heikkerö

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Science Studies vol. 18 (2005) Number 1

Editorial:

Henrik Bruun

Articles:

Graham Dutfield and Uma Suthersanen: DNA Music: Intellectual Property and the Law of Unintended Consequences

Torben Hviid Nielsen: Five Framings - One Entity? The Political Ethics of Human Embryonic Stem Cells

Eva Heiskanen: Taming the Golem - an Experiment in Participatory and Constructive Technology Assessment

Discussion:

Steve Fuller: Is STS Truly Revolutionary or Merely Revolting?

Book Reviews:

Gerd Schienstock (ed.): Embracing the Knowledge Economy: The Dynamic Transformation of the Finnish Innovation System by Mats Benner

Robin Williams, James Stewart and Roger Slack: Social Learning in Technological Innovation: Experimenting with Information and Communication Technologies by sampsa Hyysalo

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Science Studies vol. 17 (2004) Number 2

Editorial:

Britt Östlund: Ageing and Technology

Special Articles:

Birgit Jaeger: Trapped in the Digital Divide? Old People in the Information Society

Sampsa Hyysalo: Technology Nurtured - Collectives in Maintaining and Implementing Technology for Elderly Care

Britt Östlund: Social Science Research on Technology and the Elderly - Does it Exist?

Articles:

Klaus Hoeyer: The Emergence of an Entitlement Framework for Stored Tissue - Elements and Implications of an Escalating Conflict in Sweden

Book Reviews:

Nik Brown and Andrew Webster: New Medical Technologies and Society - Reordering Life by Barbara Prainsack

Yu Xie and Kimberlee A. Shauman: Women in Science. Career Processes and Outcomes by Elina Henttonen and Kirsi Korpiaho

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Science Studies vol. 17 (2004) Number 1

Articles:

Ilpo Helen: Health in Prospect - High-tech Medicine, Life Enhancement and the Economy of Hope

Sara Melendro-Oliver: Shifting Concepts of Genetic Disease

Richard Langlais, Nina Janasik and Henrik Bruun: Managing Knowledge Network Processes in the Commercialization of Science: Two Probiotica Discovery Processes in Finland and Sweden

Discussion:

Marko Ahteensuu: The Precautionary Principle in the Risk Management of Modern Biotechnology

Book Reviews:

Sergio Sismondo: An Introduction to Science and Technology Studies by Jason W. Patton

Christopher Hitchcock (ed.): Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Science by Petri Ylikoski

Daniel Lee Kleinman: Impure Cultures - University Biology and the World of Commerce by Ragna Zeiss

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Science Studies vol. 16 (2003) Number 2

Articles:

Nik Brown: Hope Against Hype - Accountability in Biopasts, Presents and Futures

Paul Johnson, Paul Martin and Robin Williams: Genetics and Forensics: Making the National DNA Database

Judith Reppy: Regulating Biotechnology in the Age of Homeland Security

Discussion:

Maria del Carmen Fernandez Diez and Maria de los Reyes Corripio Gil-Delgado: Is Intellectual property Right Legislation Constraining the Agrifood Biotechnology Sector in the European Union?

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Science Studies vol. 16 (2003) Number 1

Articles:

Øyvind Giæver: Marriage and Madness: Expert Advice and the Eugenics Issue in the 20th Century Norwegian Marriage Legislation

Steve Fuller: Karl Popper and the Reconstution of the Rationalist Left

Jochen Gläser: What Internet Use Does and Does Not Change in Scientific Communities

Country Report:

Tarmo Lemola: Transformation of Finnish Science and Technology Policy

Book Reviews:

Peder Anker: Imperial Ecology: Environmental Order in the British Empire, 1895-1945 by Elizabeth Piper

Reijo Miettinen: National Innovation System - Scientific Concept or Political Rhetoric by Aaro Tupasela

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Science Studies vol. 15 (2002) Number 2

Articles:

Thora Margareta Bertilsson: Disorganized Knowledge or New Forms of Governance

Matthias Gross: New Natures and Old Science: Hands-on Practice and Academic Research in Ecological Restoration

Juha Tuunainen: Reconsidering the Mode 2 and the Triple Helix: A Critical Comment Based on a Case Study

Dan McArthur: The Methodological Implications of Resolving the Realism Debate

Book Reviews

Helen E. Longino: The Fate of Knowledge by Petri Ylikoski

Manuel Castells: The Internet Galaxy
Manuel Castells and Pekka Himanen: The Finnish Model of the Internet Society by Antti Pelkonen

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Science Studies vol. 15 (2002) Number 1

Articles:

Jason Owen-Smith & Walter W.Powell: Standing on Shifting Terrain: Faculty Responses to the Transformation of Knowledge and Its Uses in the Life Sciences

Judith Glower: Women and Scientific Employment: Current Perspectives form the UK

Barbara Bagilhole: Academia and the Reproduction of Unequal Opportunities for Women

Discussion:

Ronda Hauben: Commodifying Usenet and the Usenet Archive or Continuing the Online Cooperative Usenet Culture?

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Science Studies vol. 14 (2001) Number 2

Articles:

Luis Suarez-Villa: The Rise of Technocapitalism

Michael Nentwich: (Re-)De-Commodification in Academic Knowledge Distribution?

Ursula Holtgrave & Raymund Werle: De-Commodifying Software? Open Source Software Between Business Strategy and Social Movement

Eric J. Iversen: Patenting and Voluntary Standards: Tensions Between the Domains of Proprietary Assets and "Public Goodsquot; in the Innovation of Network Technologies

Merle Jacob: Managing the Institutionalisation of Mode 2 Knowledge Production

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Science Studies vol. 14 (2001) Number 1

Articles:

Janet Atkinson-Grosjean, Dawn House and Donald Fischer: Canadian Science Policy and the Public Research Organisations in the 20th Century

Karoliina Snell: The Weakening Connection Between Education and Research: A Study of Three University Departments

Discussion:

Sandra Harding: Multiculturalism and Postcolonialism: What Difference Do They Make to Western Scientific Epistemology?

Janice Newson and Claire Polster: Reclaiming Our Centre: Towards a Robust Defence of Academic Autonomy

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Science Studies vol. 13 (2000) Number 2

Articles:

Aaro Tupasela: Intellectual Property Rights and Licensing: Can Centralised Technology Transfer Save Public Research?

Luisa Oliveira: Commodification of Science and Paradoxes in Universities

Judith Zubieta and Jaime Jimenéz: How is the Triple Helix Model Being Understood in Latin America? The Case of Mexico

Magnus Gulbrandsen: Between Scylla and Charybdis - and Enjoying it? Organisational Tensions and Research Work

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Science Studies vol. 13 (2000) Number 1

Articles:

Ullica Segerstråle: Politics by Scientific Means and Science by Political Means: Trojan Horses in the Sociobiology Debate

Alexandra Hofmänner: A South African Research Institute and Two Theories of Knowledge Production

Franc Mali: Obstacles in Developing University, Government and Industry Links: The Case of Slovenia

Janne Lehenkari: Studying Trajectories and Networks: The Case of Benecol Margarine

Discussion:

Rein Vihalemm: The Kuhn-loss Thesis and the Case of Phlogiston Theory

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Science Studies vol. 12 (1999) Number 2

Articles:

Claire Marris and Pierre-Benôit Joly: Between Consensus and Citizens: Public Participation in Technology Assessment in France.

Nicole Farkas: Dutch Science Shops: Matching Community Needs with University R&D.

Reijo Miettinen, Riika Eela and Mikko Rask: The Emergence and Institutionalisation of Technology Assessment in Finland.

Gerd Bender: Shaping Technology as a Means for Transforming Society: The Case of the GSM Standard for Mobile Telecommunication

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Science Studies vol. 12 (1999) Number 1

Articles:

Arnold Wilts: Theoretical and Practical Research Orientations in German Economics.

Eveliina Saari: Dynamics of Collaboration: The Case of Finnish and American Aerosol Research Groups.

Marja Häyrinen-Alestalo: The University under the Pressure of Innovation Policy - Reflecting on European and Finnish Experiences.

Discussion:

Stellan Welin and Anders Persson: Public Reactions to Xenotransplantation.

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Science Studies vol. 11 (1998) Number 2

Articles:

Tomas Hellström: Science-Policy Interaction, Constitutive Policy Making and Risk: The Development of U.S. Nuclear Safety Study WASH 1400

Peter S. Biegelbauer: Mission Impossible: The Governance of European Science and Technology

Aant Elzinga and Ants Nuder: National Science Policy Looking onto the Next Century - The Case of Sweden

Judith Zubieta García: S&T Development in Mexico: Obstacles and Opportunities

Juan C. Escalante and Jaime Jiménez: Merit-Based Incentive Systems and the Problem of Productivity in Science and Technology in Two Latin American Countries

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Science Studies vol. 11 (1998) Number 1

Articles:

Raymund Werle: An Institutional Approach to Technology

Esa Väliverronen: Biodiversity and the Power of Metaphor in Environmental Discourse

Adriana Barreiro and Léa Velho: Social Sciences in the Periphery: The Emergence and Development of Economics and Sociology in Uruguay

Johanna Hakala: Internationalisation of Science: Views of Scientific Elite in Finland

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Science Studies vol. 10 (1997) Number 2

Articles:

Kor Grit: The Rise of the Entrepreneurial University: A Heritage of the Enlightenment?, pp. 3-22.

Rapahel Sassower: Misplaced Pressure. Between Bondage and Rage at the University, pp. 23-34.

Merle Jacob: Life in the Triple Helix: The Contract Researcher, the University and the Knowledge Society, pp. 35-49.

Carl Martin Allwood: The Function and Handling of Research Problems in the Social Sciences, pp. 50-73.

Jari Kirsilä: From Applied to Pure Chemistry. A.I. Virtanen's Race for His Wartime Nobel Prize, pp. 74-91

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Science Studies vol. 10 (1997) Number 1

Articles:

Stephan Fuchs: A Sociological Theory of Objectivity, pp. 4-26.

Eva Heiskanen: The Sociological Shaping of a Technique for Environmental Assessment, pp. 27-51.

Greg Tegart: The Role of Science & Technology in the Transition from a Centrally-Planned Economy to a Market Economy in the Czech Republic, pp. 52-64

Discussion:

Steven Yearley: The Changing Social Authority of Science, pp. 65-75.

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Science Studies vol. 9 (1996) Number 2

Articles:

Miwao Matsumoto: Entrepreneurship and Strategy in Technology Transfer to Japan during the Prewar Period: The "Composite" Model, pp. 3-13.

Hitoshi Yoshioka: The Rise and Fall of Fast Breeder Development in Japan, pp. 14-26.

Koty Lapid: Reflection on the Evolution of the Research Management Systems in Japan, pp. 27-33.

Reijo Miettinen: Theories of Invention and an Industrial Innovation, pp. 34-48.

Mary Midgley: Science in the World, pp. 49-58.

Hilary Rose: Debating Science Studies in the Age of the Sound Bite, pp. 59-71.

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Science Studies vol. 9 (1996) Number 1

Articles:

Ullica Segerstråle: Anti-Antiscience: The Fight for Science and Reason, pp. 5-25.

Bernard Barber: Some Patterns and Processes in the Development of a Scientific Sociology of Science: Notes from a Sixty-Year Memoir, pp. 26-33.

Henry H. Bauer: The Anti-Science Phenomenon in Science and Technology Studies, pp. 34-49.

Valery Cholakov: Changing Attitudes to Science: From Pro-Science to Anti-Science - and Back?, pp. 50-57.

Stephan Fuchs: The Poverty of Postmodernism, pp. 58-66.

John Ziman: "Post-Academic Science": Constructing Knowledge with Networks and Norms, pp. 67-80

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Science Studies vol. 8 (1995) Number 2

Articles:

Tarmo Lemola: Evolutionary Economics: Implications for Technology Studies and Policy, pp. 5-12.

Henry Etzkowitz & Ashley J. Stevens: Inching toward Industrial Policy: The University's Role in Government Initiatives to Assist Small, Innovative Companies in the U.S., pp. 13-31.

Petri Ylikoski: The Invisible Hand and Science, pp. 32-43.

Karel Müller: The Transformation of National Research System in the Countries of Central Eastern Europe, pp. 44-55.

János Farkas: Ideas Confronted with Reality, pp. 44-60.

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Science Studies vol. 8 (1995) Number 1

Articles:

Aant Elzinga: Reflections on Research Evaluation, pp. 5-23.

Barend J.R. van der Meulen: Understanding Evaluation Processes in Research Systems in Transition, pp. 24-35.

Hanne Foss Hansen: Organizing for Quality - A Discussion of Different Evaluation Methods as Means for Improving Quality in Research, pp. 36-43.

Sven Hemlin, Pirjo Niemenmaa and Henry Montgomery: Quality Criteria in Evaluations: Peer Reviews of Grant Applications in Psychology, pp. 44-52.

Stephen C. Hill: The Formation of the Identity as a Scientist, pp. 53-72.

Country Report:

G.A. Nesvetailov and M.I. Artyukhin: Brain Drain in Belarus, pp. 73-77.

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Science Studies vol. 7 (1994) Number 2

Articles:

Henry Etzkowitz: Beyond the Frontier: The Convergence of Military and Civilian R&D in the U.S., pp. 5-22.

Erkki Kaukonen: Science and Technology in Russia: Collapse of New Dynamics?, pp. 23-36.

Morris F. Low: Redirecting Australia towards Asia: The Multifunktion Polis and the Development of the Asia-Pacific Region, pp. 37-43.

Reports and Discussion:

Shigeru Nakayama: How to Assess the Recent Brain Reverse Phenomena: A Report of a Visit to Taiwan by a Japanese Research Team, pp. 44-49.

Merle Jacob: 'Development Studies, a Progressive Research Tradition?' Comments, pp. 45-50

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Science Studies vol. 7 (1994) Number 1

Articles:

Steve Fuller: Rethinking the University from a Social Constructivist Standpoint, pp. 4-16.

Joan Solomon and John Ziman: How Groups Construct Their Science, pp. 17-30.

Valery Cholakov: The Tides of Environmentalist Discource, pp. 31-46.

Stephen C. Zehr: Method, Scale and Socio-Technical Networks: Problems of Standardization in Acid Rain, Ozone Depletion and Global Warming Research, pp. 47-58.

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Science Studies vol. 6 (1993) Number 2

Articles:

Ullica Segerstråle: The Importance of Being Right vs. The Importance of Being Earnest: Public Accountability of Science in the Baltimore Case, pp. 4-22.

Esa Väliverronen: Science and the Media: Changing Relations, pp. 23-34.

Marja Alestalo: The Rise of Neo-Liberalism in Finland: From the Politics of Equal Opportunity to the Search for Scientific Excellence, pp. 35-47.

Critical Commentary:

Susantha Goonatilake: The Historical Geopolitics of Knowledge, pp. 48-60.

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Science Studies vol. 6 (1993) Number 1

Articles:

Yukio Wakamatsu: Communicating Science to the Public in Japan and the Nordic Countries: An Application of the Inpublishing/Outpublishing Model, pp. 3-18.

Sven Hemlin and Henry Montgomery: Peer Judgements of Scientific Quality: A Cross-disiciplinary Document Analysis of Professorship Candidates, pp.19-27.

Martti Kuokkanen and Timo Tuomivaara: On the Adequacy of the Idealization Theory of the Poznan School, pp. 28-33.

Jorma Kuitunen: Policy Orientation and Ethics - How Incompatible and Why?, pp. 34-50.

Discussion:

Adrzej Dabrowski: The Collapse of the Eastern Empire of Knowledge as Reflected by Journals of Social Studies of Science, pp. 51-64.

Konstadinka Simeonova: Conflicts in the Bulgarian Scientific System in Transition to Market Economy, pp. 65-72

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Science Studies vol. 5 (1992) Number 2

Articles:

Sverker Sörlin: The International Contexts of Swedish Science: A Network Approach to the Internationalization of Science, pp. 5-12.

Thomas Schott: Scientific Research in Sweden: Orientation Toward the American Centre and Embeddedness in Nordic and European Environments, pp. 13-27.

Pär Eliasson: Peregrinatio Academica: The Study Tours and University Visits of Swedish Students Until the Year 1800, pp. 29-42.

Sven Widmalm: A Commerce of Letters: Astronomical Communication in the Eighteenth Century, pp. 43-58.

Elisabeth Crawford: The Internationalization of Physics in Sweden, 1860-1930, pp. 59-78.

Ron Eyerman and Andrew Jamison: On the Transatlantic Migration of Knowledge: Aspects of Intellectual Exchance Between the United States and Sweden, 1930-1970, pp. 79-96.

Regis Cabral: Sweden and the Hispanic World: Scientific Networks and Exchange, pp. 97-107.

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Science Studies vol. 5 (1992) Number 1

Articles:

Joachim Israel: Human Methodology, pp. 3-12.

Lothar Läsker: Objective Knowledge and the Social Structure of Transformations in its Production, pp. 13-28.

Kjell Nilsson: Utilization Patterns and Strategies in Three Policy Sectors, pp. 29-46.

Veli Verronen: A Weakness in Kuhn's Regal Argument, pp. 47-52.

Discussion:

Matti Häyry: Moral Relativism and the Philosophical Criticism of Other Cultures, pp. 53-56.

Ilkka Niiniluoto: Improving Morality - a Reply to Matti Häyry, pp. 57-59.

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Science Studies vol. 4 (1991) Number 2

Articles:

Steve Fuller: Is Realism Obsolete?, pp. 5-16.

Ilkka Niiniluoto: Whats Wrong with Relativism?, pp. 17-24.

Thomas Krogh: Relativism and Cross-Cultural Communication, pp. 25-34.

Matti Kamppinen and Antti Revonsuo: Relativism and Cognitivism, pp. 36-44.

Martin Kusch: The Sociological Deconstruction of Philosophical Facts - The Case of Psychologism, pp. 45-60.

Jouko Aho: The Strong Programme and the Weak Philosophers; A Finnish Conflict and the Levels of Interest, pp. 61-69.

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Science Studies vol. 4 (1991) Number 1

Articles:

Tove Thagaard: Research Environment, Motivation and Publication Productivity, pp. 5-18.

Heini Hakosalo: The Salpetriere Hysteric - A Foucauldian View, pp. 19-32.

Seppo Raiski: Latourian Constructivism Unfoulded into Epistemic History, pp. 33-52.

Discussion:

Regis Cabral: The Latin American Nuclear Debate, pp. 53-60.

Heta Häyry: Freedom, Autonomy, and the Limits of Medical Paternalism, pp. 61-64.

Matti Häyry: Critical Studies in Philosophical Medical Ethics, pp. 65-70.

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Science Studies vol. 3 (1990) Number 2

Articles:

Andrzej Dabrowski: The Academic Fields of Knowledge, pp. 3-22.

Matti Sintonen: Basic and Applied Sciences - Can the Distinction (Still) Be Drawn?, pp. 23-32.

Thomas Brante and Aant Elzinga: Towards a Theory of Scientific Controversies, pp. 33-46.

Govindal Parayil: Development Studies, a Progressive Research Tradition, pp. 47-56.

Reijo Miettinen: Laboratory Work in Changing Society: Neutron Activation Analysis in a Research Laboratory, pp. 57-74.

Martti Kuokkanen: Does Pearces Challenge Refute Stegmüllers thesis? - A Discussion Note, pp. 75-81.

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Science Studies vol. 3 (1990) Number 1

Articles:

Hilary Rose: Talking about Science in Three Colours: Bernal and Gender Politics in the Social Studies of Science, pp. 5-20.

Ilkka Niiniluoto: Science and Epistemic Values, pp. 21-26.

Vessela Misheva: Historical Transitions in the Socio-Cultural Position of Science, pp. 27-32.

Andrew M. Blasko: Should Science Guide Social Change, pp. 33-36.

Gernot Böhme: An End to Progress?, pp. 37-46.

Helmut Steiner: Bernals Conception of Science in the Examination of History, pp. 47-52.

Vladislav Kelle: Science and Perestroika, pp. 53-58.

Jaime Jimenez and Juan C. Escalante: J. D. Bernal in a Latin American Perspective: Science for Development?, pp. 59-66.

Carl-Axel Gemzell: The Social Function of Science and the Foundations of the Welfare State in Britain, pp. 67-72.

Sven Hemlin and Henry Montgomery: Scientists Conceptions of Scientific Quality: An Interview Study, pp. 73-82.

Björn Kumm: Impressions on the Bernal-Symposium, pp. 83-87.

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Science Studies vol. 2 (1989) Number 2

Articles:

Ingemar Nordin: The Rationality of Technology, pp. 3-10.

Marja Alestalo: On the Conditions for the Scientification of Politics, pp.11-18.

Erkki Kaukonen and Pirkko-Liisa Rauhala: Structural Transformations of Science: Trends and Problems of Scientific Integration, pp. 19-30.

Raimo Lehti: The Usefulness of Monsters when Running a Scientific Revolution, pp. 31-50.

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Science Studies vol. 2 (1989) Number 1

Articles:

Nils Roll-Hansen: The Practice Criterion and the Rise of Lysenkoism, pp. 3-16.

Martin Kusch: Discursive Formations and Possible Worlds - Reconstruction of Foucault's Archeology, pp. 17-29.

Veronica Stolte-Heiskanen: Internal and External Constraints on the Orientation of Science and Technology to Socio-Economic Development in a Small Country: The Case of Finland, pp. 31-40.

Tarmo Lemola and Raimo Lovio: The Relations Between Science and Production in Finnish Industry, pp. 41-50.

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Science Studies vol. 1 (1988) Number 1

Articles:

Aant Elzinga: The Consequences of Evaluation for Academic Research, pp. 5-14.

Hanne Foss Hansen: Control and Organization of Research: A Case Study of Humanities Departments in Denmark, pp. 15-24.

Marja Alestalo: Government Policy and the Demands for Economic Innovations: A Historical Example of a European Periphery, pp. 25-34.

Jouko Aho: Academic Disciplines and the History of Psychology. A Case Study from Finland, pp. 35-41.

Matti Sintonen: Sociobiology Helps - But Not Enough, pp. 43-49.

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