Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

I. Ideas and Perspectives / Michael Lynch -- 1. Science and Technology Studies and an Engaged Program / Sergio Sismondo -- 2. The Social Study of Science before Kuhn / Stephen Turner -- 3. Political Theory in Science and Technology Studies / Charles Thorpe -- 4. A Textbook Case Revisited - Knowledge as a Mode of Existence / Bruno Latour -- 5. The Social Worlds Framework: A Theory/Methods Package / Adele E. Clarke and Susan Leigh Star -- 6. Feminist STS and the Sciences of the Artificial / Lucy Suchman -- 7. Technological Determinism Is Dead; Long Live Technological Determinism / Sally Wyatt -- 8. Pramoedyas Chickens: Postcolonial Studies of Technoscience / Warwick Anderson and Vincanne Adams -- II. Practices, People, and Places / Olga Amsterdamska -- 9. Argumentation in Science: The Cross-Fertilization of Argumentation Theory and Science Studies / William Keith and William Rehg -- 10. STS and Social Epistemology of Science / Miriam Solomon -- 11. Cognitive Studies of Science and Technology / Ronald N. Giere -- 12. Give Me a Laboratory and I Will Raise a Discipline: The Past, Present, and Future Politics of Laboratory Studies in STS / Park Doing -- 13. Social Studies of Scientific Imaging and Visualization / Regula Valerie Burri and Joseph Dumit -- 14. Messy Shapes of Knowledge - STS Explores Informatization, New Media, and Academic Work / Paul Wouters, Katie Vann, Andrea Scharnhorst, Matt Ratto, Una Hellsten, Jenny Fry and Anne Beaulieu -- 15. Sites of Scientific Practice: The Enduring Importance of Place / Christopher R. Henke and Thomas F. Gieryn -- 16. Scientific Training and the Creation of Scientific Knowledge / Cyrus C. M. Mody and David Kaiser -- 17. The Coming Gender Revolution in Science / Henry Etzkowitz, Stefan Fuchs, Namrata Gupta, Carol Kemelgor and Marina Ranga -- III. Politics and Publics /Edward J. Hackett -- 18. Science and the Modern World / Steven Shapin -- 19. Science and Public Participation / Massimiano Bucchi and Federico Neresini -- 20. Science, Technology, and Social Movements / David Hess, Steve Breyman, Nancy Campbell and Brian Martin -- 21. Patient Groups and Health Movements / Steven Epstein -- 22. User-Technology Relationships: Some Recent Developments / Nelly Oudshoorn and Trevor Pinch -- 23. STS and Ethics: Implications for Engineering Ethics / Deborah G. Johnson and Jameson M. Wetmore -- 24. STS Perspectives on Scientific Governance / Alan Irwin -- 25. Expertise: From Attribute to Attribution and Back Again? / Robert Evans and Harry Collins -- IV. Institutions and Economics / Olga Amsterdamska -- 26. The Commercialization of Science and the Response of STS / Philip Mirowski and Esther-Mirjam Sent -- 27. Organizational Contexts of Science: Boundaries and Relationships between University and Industry / Jennifer L. Croissant and Laurel Smith-Doerr -- 28. Science, Technology, and the Military: Priorities, Preoccupations, and Possibilities / Brian Rappert, Brian Balmer and John Stone -- 29. The Right Patients for the Drug: Pharmaceutical Circuits and the Codification of Illness / Andrew Lakoff -- 30. Making Order: Law and Science in Action / Sheila Jasanoff -- 31. Knowledge and Development / Susan E. Cozzens, Sonia Gatchair, Kyung-Sup Kim, Gonzalo Ordonez and Anupit Supnithadnaporn -- V. Emergent Technosciences / Judy Wajcman -- 32. Genomics, STS, and the Making of Sociotechnical Futures / Adam M. Hedgecoe and Paul A. Martin -- 33. Emerging Medical Technologies / Linda F. Hogle -- 34. Biomedical Technologies, Cultural Horizons, and Contested Boundaries / Margaret Lock -- 35. STS and Social Studies of Finance / Alex Preda -- 36. Nature and the Environment in Science and Technology Studies/ Steven Yearly -- 37. Bridging STS and Communication Studies: Scholarship on Media and Information Technologies / Pablo Boczkowski and Leah A. Lievrouw -- 38. Anticipatory Governance of Nanotechnology: Foresight, Engagement, and Integration / Daniel Barben, Erik Fisher, Cynthia Selin and David H. Guston.