David J. Hess

Outline of Selecting Technology, Science, and Medicine

Volume 1 of Alternative Pathways in Globalization

Ch. 1 Technology and Sustainable, Just Communities
Definitions
Designing Globalization
The Thesis of Communities as Countervailing Force
Sustainability, Justice, and Red-Green Design
The Diversification of Technological Fields
C-2-C, Social Movements, and Global Capital
The Regulation of Things
Potentials

Ch. 2 The Selection of Scientific Knowledge
The Autonomy Problem in Science Studies
The Dynamics of Research Fields
The Politics of Alignment in the Neoliberal Academy
The Problem of Undone Science

Ch. 3 Health and the Food-Medicine Nexus
Alternative Globalization
From Medical Pluralism to Methodological Pluralism
Industrial Integration
The Patient in the Era of Flexible Medical Production
Health and Sustainable, Just Communities

Ch. 4 The Globalization of Local Knowledges
The Public Understanding of Science
Social Movement Cycles and the Prospects of Progress
The Glass of Globalization