Examples which come readily to mind are the debate surrounding the introduction of public health measures in the US at the beginning of this century; Friedrich Engel's advocacy for the working poor in England; debates on the likely consequences of Haussmann's urban renewal of Paris also at the end of the 19th century and the ongoing debate on race and I.Q
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PollakMichaelNelkinDorothy, “The Nuclear Establishment and its Ideology,” paper presented at a Round Table Conference on the Social Aspects of the Peaceful Use of Nuclear Energy at the European Coordination Centre for Research and Documentation in Social Sciences, Vienna, November 1978
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In a yet unpublished paper “The Impact of the Nuclear Controversy on Decision-Making Structures,” several collaborators and I have attempted to see what impact, if any, the public controversy on nuclear power had on energy models, on research policy related to alternative energy forms and on the political system. While we found some adaptation on a fairly superficial level, we had to conclude that nothing much has changed
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The Austrian debate on nuclear energy has been fully described and analyzed in a forthcoming book,NowotnyHelga, “Kernenergie—Gefahr oder Notwendigkeit,”Frankfurt: Suhrkamp1979; for a short English description see Helmut Hirsch and Helga Nowotny, “Information and Opposition in Austrian Nuclear Energy Policy,” Minerva, Vol. XV, No. 3–4, 1977, pp. 316–334
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The reports of the expert groups have been published by the “Bundespressedienst” as “Österreich Dokumentationen Kernenergie,” 4 volumes, Vienna 1977
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MazurAllan, “Societal and Scientific Causes of the Historical Development of Risk Assessment,” paper prepared for the Battelle Workshop on Society, Technology, and Risk Assessment, Wölfersheim, June 1979
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WeinbergAlvin, “The Limits of Science and Trans-Science,”Interdisciplinary Science Review, Vol. 2, no. 4, 1977, pp. 337–342
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NowotnyHelga, “Scientific Purity and Nuclear Danger,” in: MendelsohnE.WeingartP.WhitleyR. (Eds.): The Social Production of Scientific Knowledge. Sociology of the Sciences, Vol. I, 1977, pp. 243–264
