Science Outside the Lab: Helping Graduate Students in Science and Engineering Understand the Complexities of Science Policy.
Helping scientists and engineers challenge received assumptions about how science, engineering, and society relate is a critical cornerstone for macroethics education. Scientific and engineering research are frequently framed as first steps of a value-free linear model that inexorably leads to socie...
| Publicado en: | Science & Engineering Ethics Vol. 23; no. 3; pp. 861 - 883 |
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