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Title Experts in science and society / edited by Elke Kurz-Milcke, Gerd Gigerenzer
Published New York ; London : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2003

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Description viii, 314 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Section 1 -- Political Systems and the Experts They Support -- 1 Scientists as Expert Advisors: Science Cultures Versus National -- Cultures? -- Horst Rakel 3 -- 2 Experts' Discourses as Judicial Drama or Bureaucratic Coordination: -- Family Debate in the United States and Germany -- Wolfang Walter 27 -- 3 The Integration of Social Science Expertise Into the Political Process: -- Did It Actually Happen? -- Gabriele Metzler 47 -- 4 Socialist Legal Experts: A New Profession? -- Ute Schneider 65 -- -- Section 2 -- Who Is Called Upon as Expert? -- 5 Folklore Protection in Australia: Who Is Expert in Aboriginal -- Tradition? -- Christoph Antons 85 -- 6 The Humane Expert: The Crisis of Modern Medicine During the -- Weimar Republic -- Michael Hau 105 -- 7 Expertise Not Wanted: The Case of the Criminal Law -- Jean-Paul Brodeur 123 -- 8 Air Pollution Control: Who Are the Experts? -- Matthias Heymann 159 -- -- -- -- Section 3 -- Experts, Redefined -- 9 The Philosopher as Coach -- Andreas Follesdal 181 -- 10 Who Decides the Worth of an Arm and a Leg? Assessing the -- Monetary Value of Nonmonetary Damage -- Fenna H. Polctiek and CarelJ. J. M. Stolker 201 -- 11 The Expert in a Historical Context: The Case of Venetian Politics -- Achim Landwehr 215 -- -- Section 4 -- Innovative Representations -- 12 Mapping Urban Nature: Bio-Ecological Expertise and Urban -- Planning -- Jens Lachmund 231 -- 13 How to Improve the Diagnostic Inferences of Medical Experts -- Ulrich Hoffrage and Gerd Gigerenzer 249 -- 14 Statistical Scientific Evidence and Expertise in the Courtroom -- Samuel Lindsey 269 -- 15 The Authority of Representations -- Elke Kurz-Milcke 281 -- -- Name Index 303 -- -- Subject Index 311
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Subject Science consultants.
Consultants -- Social aspects.
Science and state.
Author Gigerenzer, Gerd.
Kurz-Milcke, Elke.
LC no. 2003058933
ISBN 0306479036 :