Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

I. Ideas and perspectives / Michael Lynch. -- Science and technology studies and an engaged program / Sergio Sismondo -- The social study of science before Kuhn / Stephen Turner -- Political theory in science and technology studies / Charles Thorpe -- A textbook case revisited--knowledge as a mode of existence / Bruno Latour -- The social worlds framework : a theory/methods package / Adele E. Clark and Susan Leigh Star -- Feminist STS and the sciences of the artificial / Lucy Suchman -- Technological determinism is dead; long live technological determinism / Sally Wyatt -- Pramoedya's chickens : postcolonial studies of technoscience / Warwick Anderson and Vincanne Adams.

II. Practices, people, and places / Olga Amsterdamska. -- Argumentation in science : the cross-fertilization of argumentation theory and science studies / William Keith and William Rehg -- STS and the social epistemology of science / Miriam Solomon -- Cognitive studies of science and technology / Ronald N. Giere -- Give me a laboratory and I will raise a discipline : the past, present, and future politics of laboratory studies in STS / Park Doing -- Social studies of scientific imaging and visualization / Regula Valérie Burri and Joseph Dumit -- Messy shapes of knowledge--STS explores informatization, new media, and academic work / The Virual Knowledge Studio : / Paul Wouters ... [et al.] -- Sites of scientific practice : the enduring importance of place / Christopher R. Henke and Thomas F. Gieryn -- Scientific training and the creation of scientific knowledge / Cyrus C.M. Mody and David Kaiser -- The coming gender revolution in science / Henry Etzkowitz ... [et al.].

III. Politics and publics / Edward J. Hackett. -- Science and the modern world / Steven Shapin -- Science and public participation / Massimiano Bucchi and Federico Neresini -- Science, technology, and social movements / David Hess ... [et al.] -- Patient groups and health movements / Steven Epstein -- User-technology relationships : some recent developments / Nelly Oudshoorn and Trevor Pinch -- STS and ethics : implications for engineering ethics / Deborah G. Johnson and Jameson M. Wetmore -- STS perspectives on scientific governance / Alan Irwin -- Expertise : from attribute to attribution and back again? / Robert Evans and Harry Collins.

IV. Institutions and economics / Olga Amsterdamska. -- The commercialization of science and the response of STS / Philip Mirowski and Esther-Mirjam Sent -- Organizational contexts of science : boundaries and relationships between university and industry / Jennifer L. Croissant and Laurel Smith-Doerr -- Science, technology, and the military : priorities, preoccupations, and possibilities / Brian Rappert, Brian Balmer, and John Stone -- The right patients for the drug : pharmaceutical circuits and the codification of illness / Andrew Lakoff -- Making order : law and science in action / Sheila Jasanoff -- Knowledge and development / Susan E. Cozzens ... [et al.].

V. Emergent technosciences / Judy Wajcman. -- Genomics, STS, and the making of sociotechnical futures / Adam M. Hedgecoe and Paul A Martin -- Emerging medical technologies / Linda F. Hogle -- Biomedical technologies, cultural horizons, and contested boundaries / Margaret Lock -- STS and social studies of finance / Alex Preda -- Nature and the environment in science and technology studies / Steven Yearley -- Bridging STS and communication studies : scholarship on media and information technologies / Pablo Boczkowski and Leah A. Lievrouw -- Anticipatory governance of nanotechnology : foresight, engagement, and integration / Daniel Barben ... [et al.].