The Fifth Branch: Science Advisers as Policymakers

By Sheila Jasanoff

Book Overview

Jasanoff (Program on Science, Technology, and Society, Cornell) begins by describing some significant failures such as flu shots, Love Canal, and alar in administrative and judicial decisionmaking that fed the demand for more peer review of regulatory science. She merges legal and institutional anal

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674300610
• ISBN13: 9780674300613
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.3" x 6.5"