(Low) Expectations, Legitimization, and the Contingent Uses of Scientific Knowledge: Engagements with Neuroscience in Scottish Social Policy and Services
Neuroscientific research increasingly sparks the imaginations and hopes of policymakers. Whilst the diversity of assertive statements being made on the basis of neuroscience has been well documented, less frequently explored are more contingent discourses regarding studies of the brain. In this pape...
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Society for Social Studies of Science
2015-11-01
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| Series: | Engaging Science, Technology, and Society |
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| Online Access: | http://estsjournal.org/article/view/17/14 |