Science, Politics and Morality: Scientific Uncertainty and Decision Making

Introduction; Part I: Controversies about Risks and Policy Implications: Controversies and Political Decision Making; Controversies about Risks and their Relation to Different Paradigms in Biological Research; Probabilistic Uncertainty and Technological Risks; Part II: Concepts of Science for Policy: A New Branch of Science, Inc.; The Emergence of Post-Normal Science; Part III: The Use of Social Science in the Policy Making Process: Argumentation and Power in Evaluation-Research and in Its Utilization in the Policy Making Process; Part IV: Ethical Problems with Developments in Science and Technology: Scientific Knowledge, Discourse Ethics, and Consensus Formation on Public Issues; The Argument about a New Paradigm for Health Research; AIDS and Human Rights: A Societal Choice; Part V: Public and State Interests in the Development and Control of Technology: Biotechnology and Social Perception; Scientific Controversies in Food Biotechnology; Index.