The Golem at Large What You Should Know about Technology 2nd Edition by Harry Collins, Trevor Pinch 1139899864 9781139899864
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ISBN 10: 1139899864
ISBN 13: 9781139899864
Author: Harry Collins; Trevor Pinch
In the very successful and widely discussed first volume in the Golem series, The Golem: What You Should Know about Science, Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch likened science to the Golem, a creature from Jewish mythology, a powerful creature which, while not evil, can be dangerous because it is clumsy. In this second volume, the authors now consider the Golem of technology. In a series of case studies they demonstrate that the imperfections in technology are related to the uncertainties in science described in the first volume. The case studies cover the role of the Patriot anti-missile missile in the Gulf War, the Challenger space shuttle explosion, tests of nuclear fuel flasks and of anti-misting kerosene as a fuel for airplanes, economic modeling, the question of the origins of oil, analysis of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, and the contribution of lay expertise to the analysis of treatments for AIDS.
The Golem at Large What You Should Know about Technology 2nd Table of contents:
1 A clean kill?: the role of Patriot in the Gulf War
The Gulf War
War, science, and technology
Was Patriot a success?
What everyone agrees about Patriot
Criteria of success
The indirect criteria of success
Sales, anti-tactical missiles, and Star Wars
The local political role of Patriot
Death and destruction
The direct criteria of success
Interception and diversion
Dudding and damaging
Reaching toward the laboratory
2 The naked launch: assigning blame for the Challenger explosion
O-ring joints
The design and testing of the SRB joints
The hydroburst test
Similarity and difference
More testing
Make sure the thing’s going to work
Testing for worst scenarios
First flight of the shuttle
1981-1985 erosion and blow-by become accepted and expected
Going operational
Blow-by
The Challenger launch decision
The pre-launch teleconference
Conclusion
3 Crash!: nuclear fuel flasks and anti-misting kerosene on trial
Two crashes: a solution to technological ambivalence?
Experiments and demonstrations
The crashes reanalysed
The train crash revisited
The plane crash revisited
Imagining what might have been done
Conclusion
4 The world according to Gold: disputes about the origins of oil
Gold’s world
Who is Gold?
Which came first, the fossil or the fuel?
Abiogenic evidence?
A crucial oil well?
Give us a gusher
5 Tidings of comfort and joy: Seven Wise Men and the science of economics
What is a macroeconomic model made of?
The Seven Wise Men and their ideas
Why do macroeconometric models survive?
(i) Underlying structure versus the behaviour of the economy
(ii) Quantitative prediction
(iii) Big forecast errors
(iv) Luck
(v) Trouble with the economy
Discussion
Postscript
6 The science of the lambs: Chernobyl and the Cumbrian sheepfarmers
Fallout over Britain
The government sounds the ‘all clear’
Radioactive lambs
The science of the lambs
The Sellafield factor
Conclusion
7 ACTing UP: AIDS cures and lay expertise
AIDS: The ‘gay plague’
PART I
A vaccine in two years?
The promise of anti-viral drugs
Clinical controlled trials and the FDA
Buyers clubs
Project Inform
The trials of AZT
Equipoise
Patients as body counts
Redefining the doctor-patient relationship
Community-based trials
PART II
ACT UP
Talking good science
Activists start to win allies
The expertness of lay expertise
Teaching old dogs new tricks
Conclusion: the golem goes to work
Promises delivered
Conclusion
References and Further Reading
Index
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