Preliminary 4S Conference Schedule



Sunday October 22 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.



45. Vivian Weil, "Engineering Studies and Engineering Practice: An Agenda for STS,"

Michael Davis, Illinois Institute of Technology
"Questions for STS From Engineering Ethics,"
Kathryn Henderson,Texas A&M
"Parallels in Knowledge in Practice: Engineers and Workers,"
Thomas Misa, Illinois Institute of Technology
"Managing Large Technical Systems: An Agenda for Engineering Studies and STS,"
Vivian Weil, Illinois Institute of Technology,
"Collaborative Research by Engineers and Philosophers Addressing Requirements of the North American Free Trade Agreement,"
Bruce Seely, Michigan Technological University, Discussant
Rachelle Hollander, National Science Foundation, Chair

46. Henry Etzkowitz, "Science and Technology Policy in the U.S.: A New Corporatism?"

Henry Etzkowitz, SUNY, Chair,
"The Triple Helix: University-Industry-Government Relations for Knowledge Based Economic Development; The Emergence of Corporatism American Style,"
Megan Jones,
"S &T Advice to State Legislatures,"
Chris Coburn,
"Coordinating S & T Policy and Projects With the States,"
Julia Melkers,
"Evaluating State Science and Technology Programs,"
Susan Cozzens, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
"Quality of Life Returns From Basic Research,"
Irwin Feller, Discussant

47. David Hess, "New Cultural/Anthropological Studies of Medical Science and Technology,"

Roddey Reid,
"Healthy Families, Healthy Bodies: The Politics of Speech and Expertise in the California Anti-Second-Hand Smoke Campaign,"
Donald Joralemon,
"QOL and Transplants: Cultural Foundations and Implicit Agendas,"
Karen-Sue Taussig, Chair,
"Religious Complexities and Genetic Complexities: Exploring Intersections Between Religion and Clinical Genetics Practices in the Netherlands,"
Linda L. Layne,
"'Bad Luck Genes': Fate and (Mis)fortune in Genetic Understandings of Pregnancy Loss,"
Robin L. Heath,
"Biomedical Research on Depression,"
Lisa Cartwright,
"Telemedicine: Medical Imaging and the Imagining of Global Ethnoscapes and Transnational Virtual Subjects,"
Ann Saetnan, Discussant

48. "Negotiations of Technoscientific Activity and Discourse,"

Lili F. Velez, Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science
"Student Responses to Laboratory Uncertainty, or 'How Can We Be Sure if She's Not?',"
Kevin Leander, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
"I Still Don't Buy It; Discourses and Authority in a High School Physics Class,"
Robert Swieringa, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign,
"Talk at Work: Students' Discursive Management of Activity Via the Weekly Laboratory Meeting,"
Chuck Bazerman, University of California, Santa Barbara, Chair and Discussant
Jonathan Plucker, University of Maine, Discussant

49. "Authors Meet Critics Meets Authors,"

Linnda R. Caporael, Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute, Chair and Discussant;
Author: John Dupre, Stanford Unviersity,
"The Disorder of Things: Metaphysical Foundations of the Disunity of Science,"
Respondant: Alexander Rosenberg, University of Georgia,
Author: Alexander Rosenberg, University of Georgia,
"Instrumental Biology or the Disunity of Science,"
Respondant: John Dupre, Stanford University

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