Dorothy Nelkin
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American sociologist of science
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- PhD Sociology Columbia University
- Masters Sociology Columbia University
- Bachelors Sociology University of Chicago
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Dorothy Wolfers Nelkin was an American sociologist of science most noted for her work researching and chronicling interplay between science, technology and the general public. Her work often highlighted the ramifications of unchecked scientific advances and potential threats to privacy and civil liberties. She was the author or co-author of 26 books, including Selling Science: How the Press Covers Science and Technology, The Molecular Gaze: Art in the Genetic Age, and Body Bazaar: The Market for Human Tissue in the Biotechnology Age.
Dorothy Nelkin's Published Works
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Published Works
- The DNA Mystique: The Gene As a Cultural Icon (1995) (706)
- Selling Science: How the Press Covers Science and Technology (1987) (642)
- Controversy: Politics of Technical Decisions (1979) (290)
- The Animal Rights Crusade: The Growth of a Moral Protest (1991) (289)
- The Political Impact of Technical Expertise (1975) (261)
- An uneasy relationship: the tensions between medicine and the media (1996) (186)
- Dangerous diagnostics : the social power of biological information : with a new preface (1989) (154)
- Communicating technological risk: the social construction of risk perception. (1989) (147)
- Reactive Risk and Rational Action: Managing Moral Hazard in Insurance Contracts. (1986) (144)
- 19 Science Controversies The Dynamics of Public Disputes in the United States (1995) (107)
- Homo economicus: commercialization of body tissue in the age of biotechnology. (1998) (100)
- Molecular metaphors: the gene in popular discourse (2001) (85)
- Promotional metaphors and their popular appeal (1994) (83)
- AIDS and the news media. (1991) (81)
- Whose body is it anyway? Disputes over body tissue in a biotechnology age (1998) (81)
- The Atom Besieged: Extraparliamentary Dissent in France and Germany (1980) (78)
- The creation controversy : science or Scripture in the schools (1982) (72)
- The Nazi Doctors and the Nuremberg Code: Human Rights in Human Experimentation (1993) (72)
- Values at risk (1987) (67)
- The Molecular Gaze: Art in the Genetic Age (2003) (67)
- Sex, Race, and Science: Eugenics in the Deep South (1995) (62)
- Workers At Risk: Voices from the Workplace (1984) (53)
- The Gene as a Cultural Icon (1996) (50)
- DNA identification and surveillance creep (1999) (49)
- Nuclear Power as a Feminist Issue (1981) (48)
- Migrant Agricultural Workers in America's Northeast. (1972) (48)
- Technological decisions and democracy (1977) (48)
- Curricula and Political Conflict. (Book Reviews: Science Textbook Controversies and the Politics of Equal Time) (1978) (47)
- Workers at risk. (1983) (47)
- Technological Decisions and Democracy: European Experiments in Public Participation@@@Basic Human Needs: A Framework for Action (1979) (46)
- AIDS and the social sciences: review of useful knowledge and research needs. (1987) (46)
- Public Participation in Technological Decisions : Reality or Grand Illusion : Technology Review (1988) (43)
- Scientific Knowledge, Public Policy, and Democracy (1979) (43)
- The science-textbook controversies. (1976) (42)
- Science, technology, and the limits of judicial competence. (1981) (40)
- Do the Dead Have Interests? Policy Issues for Research After Life (1998) (39)
- Scientists and Professional Responsibility: The Experience of American Ecologists (1977) (38)
- RISK REPORTING AND THE MANAGEMENT OF INDUSTRIAL CRISES (1988) (38)
- The social dynamics of genetic testing: the case of Fragile-X. (1996) (38)
- A Disease of Society. Cultural and Institutional Responses to AIDS (1991) (37)
- Some Social and Political Dimensions of Nuclear Power: Examples from Three Mile Island (1981) (37)
- Beyond Risk: Reporting about Genetics in the Post-Asilomar Press (2001) (34)
- Cloning in the Popular Imagination (1998) (34)
- God Talk: Confusion between Science and Religion (2004) (33)
- Science As Intellectual Property (1984) (33)
- Science as intellectual property : who controls research? (1984) (33)
- Political Parties and the Nuclear Energy Debate in France and Germany (1980) (32)
- Nuclear Power and Its Critics; The Cayuga Lake Controversy. (1971) (31)
- The performance of science (1998) (30)
- Intellectual property: the control of scientific information. (1982) (28)
- Waiting for organ transplantation: results of an analysis by an Institute of Medicine Committee. (2003) (28)
- Disputed dimensions of risk: a public school controversy over AIDS. (1986) (26)
- The Language of Risk: Conflicting Perspectives on Occupational Health (1985) (26)
- Surveillance Creep in the Genetic Age (2003) (24)
- Jetport: The Boston Airport Controversy (1974) (23)
- Science Education for Citizens: Perspectives and Issues II. Science and Technology Policy and the Democratic Process (1982) (23)
- Unpredictability and Life Style in a Migrant Labor Camp (1970) (22)
- The Implicated and the Immune: Responses to AIDS in the Arts and Popular Culture (1991) (22)
- Resistance to new technology: Forms of intrusion: comparing resistance to information technology and biotechnology in the USA (1995) (22)
- Biological categories and border controls: the revival of eugenics in anti‐immigration rhetoric (1998) (22)
- Problems and Procedures in the Regulation of Technological Risk (1980) (21)
- The creation controversy (1982) (21)
- The Role of Experts in a Nuclear Siting Controversy (1974) (20)
- Scientists in an Environmental Controversy (1971) (20)
- The university and military research : moral politics at M.I.T (1972) (20)
- The culture of science journalism (1987) (20)
- Scientific Controversies: Controversies and the authority of science (1987) (19)
- The jurisprudence of genetics (1992) (18)
- The double-edged helix. (1994) (18)
- THE EVOLUTION OF THE NUCLEAR DEBATE: THE ROLE OF PUBLIC PARTICIPATION* (1978) (17)
- The Bell Curve: statement by the NIH-DOE Joint Working Group on the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Human Genome Research. (1996) (17)
- Threats and promises: negotiating the control of research. (1978) (16)
- Prenatal Testing: A Sociological Perspective (1995) (16)
- Commentary: University—Industry Alliances (1987) (15)
- The Glory and the Power (1977) (15)
- Blunders in the business of risk (1982) (14)
- Science for sale (1984) (14)
- Native Americans and Nuclear Power (1981) (14)
- “Genes Made Me Do It”: The Appeal of Biological Explanations (1996) (14)
- The Economic and Social Setting of Military Takeovers in Africa (1967) (13)
- Labor and Nuclear Power (1980) (13)
- Classify and Control: Genetic Information in the Schools (1991) (12)
- Science as Intellectual Property: Who Controls Scientific Research? (1985) (12)
- Gene as a Cultural Icon (2006) (12)
- The politics of personhood. (1983) (11)
- On the season : aspects of the migrant labor system (1970) (11)
- The influence of genetics on contemporary art (2002) (11)
- Ecologists and the public interest (1976) (10)
- The politics of housing innovation : the fate of the Civilian Industrial Technology Program (1973) (10)
- Scientific journals and public disputes (1998) (9)
- Anti-nuclear connections: power and weapons (1981) (9)
- Media portrayals of genetics. (1998) (9)
- Distributing expertise: a Dutch experiment in public interest science (1979) (8)
- Observations on Workers' Perceptions of Risk in the Dangerous Trades* (1984) (8)
- A response to marginality: the case of migrant farm workers. (1969) (8)
- How to doctor the media. (1986) (8)
- The revival of eugenics in American popular culture. (1997) (8)
- Risk as an Arena of Struggle (1985) (8)
- A brief history of the political work of genetics. (2002) (7)
- Public responses to genetic engineering (1989) (7)
- Wisdom, Expertise, and the Application of Ethics (1981) (7)
- Displaced agendas: current regulatory strategies for germline gene therapy. (2000) (7)
- Patenting Genes and the Public Interest (2002) (7)
- Biology is not destiny. (1995) (6)
- Reporting Risk: The Case of Silicone Breast Implants (1994) (6)
- The Science Wars: Responses to a Marriage Failed (1996) (6)
- Communicating Risk--Once Again (2002) (6)
- Creation VS. Evolution: The Politics of Science Education (1977) (6)
- Technogenesis: Aesthetic Dimensions of Art and Biotechnology (2008) (5)
- Risk and the Press (1987) (5)
- A PREGNANT PAUSE: THE EUROPEAN RESPONSE TO THE THREE MILE ISLAND ACCIDENT * (1981) (5)
- A Disease of Society: Introduction: A Disease of Society: Cultural and Institutional Responses to AIDS (1991) (5)
- The gene is out of the bottle. (1989) (5)
- Tempest in a test tube. (1980) (5)
- B. Scientists in an Adversary Culture: the 1970s (1978) (5)
- Technological Trends and the Organization of Migrant Farm Workers (1972) (5)
- Managing biomedical news. (1985) (5)
- IV. Thoughts on the Proposed Science Court (1977) (5)
- From Promises of Progress to Portents of Peril: Public Responses to Genetic Engineering (2000) (4)
- University-Industry Alliances: New Trends for an Old Idea. (1986) (4)
- SCIENCE AS A SOURCE OF POLITICAL CONFLICT (1979) (4)
- Publication and promotion. The performance of science. (1998) (4)
- In the name of genetics (1993) (4)
- Who Owns Your Body (2001) (4)
- From Dayton to Little Rock: Creationism Evolves* (1982) (4)
- A Program to Coordinate Environmental Research (1971) (4)
- Science and Social Control (1981) (4)
- The Social Responsibility of Scientists (1979) (4)
- Science, Rationality, and the Creation/Evolution Dispute. (1982) (4)
- Science Studies in the 1990s (1989) (4)
- Science in the public eye (1990) (3)
- The Language of Risk: Conflicting Perspectives on Occupational Health. (1987) (3)
- Hidden Arguments: Political Ideology and Disease Prevention Policy.Sylvia Noble Tesh (1989) (3)
- The Political Impact of Technological Expertise : Social Studies of Science (1988) (3)
- Rural Worker Adjustment to Urban Life. An Assessment of the Research. (1971) (3)
- Genetics, god, and sacred DNA (1996) (3)
- Scientists in an adversary culture: the 1970's. (1978) (3)
- Books: Scientific Mystifications (1978) (3)
- Centralizing health care (1976) (3)
- Political Change in Ordered Societies: The Rise of Citizens' Movements@@@Environmental Protest and Citizen Politics in Japan@@@The Atom Besieged@@@Green Bans@@@La prophetie anti-nucleaire (1983) (2)
- Genetics and social policy. (1992) (2)
- The StarLink controversy: the competing frames of risk disputes (2004) (2)
- French and German courts on nuclear power (1980) (2)
- The Comparative Political Analysis of Science and Technology@@@Presidential Politics and Science Policy@@@Le Pouvoir et la Science en France@@@Directing Technology: Policies for Promotion and Control@@@Light Water: How the Nuclear Dream Dissolved@@@Technological Decisions and Democracy: European Exp (1981) (2)
- Consensus and conflict resolution: the polities of assessing risk (1979) (2)
- Trends in Science Policy: The Search for Controls (1976) (2)
- Science As Intellectual Property: Who Controls Research? (Aaas Series on Issues in Science and Technology) (1983) (2)
- Legislating creation in Arkansas (1983) (2)
- A disease of society: cultural responses to AIDS (part 1): introduction. (1990) (2)
- Creating Natural Distinctions (1997) (2)
- Nowhere to hide (1994) (2)
- Research in the market-place (1985) (2)
- Science or Scripture: The Politics of “Equal Time” (1976) (2)
- Cloning: a business without regulation. (1999) (1)
- Constructing Reproduction (1995) (1)
- Creation Versus Evolution At The Millennium (2000) (1)
- Risk by Choice? Knowledge and Power in the Hazardous Workplace@@@Workers at Risk: Voices from the Workplace.@@@Risk by Choice: Regulating Health and Safety in the Workplace. (1984) (1)
- Book Review: Body Parts: Property Rights and the Ownership of Human Biological Materials (1997) (1)
- Stealing science's clothes (1996) (1)
- The Impact and Control of Technological Change (1974) (1)
- Scientific evidence and the courts. (1993) (1)
- Communicating the Risks and Benefits of Technology: The Case of Pharmaceuticals (1989) (1)
- Arena of technological policy (1979) (1)
- Making America Safe From ‘Foreign Germs’ (1995) (1)
- Good Genes and Bad Genes (1999) (1)
- Nuclear protest and national policy (1981) (1)
- B. Commentary on the XVth International Congress of the History of Science (1977) (1)
- Genetic Predisposition and the Politics of Prediction (2001) (1)
- Search For Continental Unity (1965) (1)
- Challenger: the high cost of hype (1986) (1)
- Responsible genetics (1992) (1)
- Whose genes are they anyway? (1999) (1)
- Energy Policy@@@The Atom Besieged@@@Consumers and Energy Conservation@@@Energy, Economic Growth, and Regionalism in the West@@@Energy, Economics, and the Environment@@@Energy Forecasting for Planners: Transportation Models@@@Energy from the West@@@Energy Independence for the United States@@@Energy-P (1982) (1)
- Show and sell (1987) (1)
- Disease in the popular American press: the case of diptheria, typhoid fever, and syphilis, 1870–1920 (1991) (1)
- The rhetoric of scientific revolution. (1992) (1)
- Establishing professional standards: ecologists and the public interest. (1976) (1)
- Democratic Values and Technology Policy (1986) (1)
- Massport vs. community (1974) (1)
- Del gen como icono cultural (1998) (1)
- Introduction: The Body, Economic Power and Social Control: Introduction (1999) (0)
- Book Review: Rural Worker Adjustment to Urban Life. An Assessment of the Research (1971) (0)
- Book Review: Labor Organizations: African Trade Unions (1968) (0)
- Notices of Books (1976) (0)
- [Auto-immunity and problems of autoantibodies]. (1963) (0)
- Cracking the Genome: Inside the Race to Unlock Human DNA, by K. Davies (2003) (0)
- Labor: stumbling block to Pan-Africanism (1966) (0)
- Living inventions: animal patenting in the United States and Europe. (1992) (0)
- Living inventions: biotechnology and the public (1992) (0)
- Public access versus professional control of research. (1983) (0)
- Overview of Policy Issues: Panel Report (1979) (0)
- Selling science: sdentists in search of a press (2009) (0)
- The double‐edged helix: Popular narratives and public perceptions of science (1997) (0)
- Cracking the Genome: Inside the Race to Unlock Human DNA (review) (2003) (0)
- (10) Continental Trade Union Organization (1964) (0)
- Book Review:Controlling Our Destinies: Historical, Philosophical, Ethical, and Theological Perspectives on the Human Genome Project Phillip R. Sloan (2000) (0)
- Media Coverage of Biotechnology (2002) (0)
- Usage and abusage (1991) (0)
- Reductionism and Social Policy (2003) (0)
- Book Review:The Embryo Research Debate: Science and the Politics of Reproduction Michael Mulkay (1999) (0)
- How Can You Patent Genes (2002) (0)
- Making Distinctions “Natural”: The Science of Social Categorization in the United States in the Twentieth Century (2008) (0)
- Genome: the social power of biological tests (1) (1990) (0)
- Health Care in a Genetic Age (1997) (0)
- The Science Wars: Responses to (1996) (0)
- Papers and Commentaries Presented to the Organization of American Historians, April 1978 (1978) (0)
- Limits to Science? Issues Raised by the Recombinant DNA Dispute (1979) (0)
- Military Profesionalization and Political Power. (1973) (0)
- The Chilling Effect of Secrecy (1982) (0)
- Genetics: The New Genetics and the Public's Health (2003) (0)
- The Politics of Earthquake Prediction . By Richard Stuart Olson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990. $19.95. (1990) (0)
- Book Review: Body Parts: Property Rights and the Ownership of Human Biological MaterialsGoldE. Richard, Body Parts: Property Bights and the Ownership of Human Biological Materials : 223 pp., ISBN 0-87840-617-4 , $49.95. To order call 800-246-9606 (1997) (0)
- The Rhetoric of Scientific RevolutionThe Human Genome ProjectBiotechnics and Society (1992) (0)
- Eye to the rosy lens (1985) (0)
- Book Review: Labor Organizations: L'évolution du mouvement syndical en Afrique Occidentale (1967) (0)
- Personal genome sequencing: the answer to all of our worries. (2003) (0)
- Taking risks (1984) (0)
- Is Bioethics for Sale? The Dilemmas of Conflict of Interest (2003) (0)
- Kevin Davies. Cracking the Genome: Inside the Race to Unlock Human DNA. Reprint (2003) (0)
- A Disease of Society: Index (1991) (0)
- Denial is Counterproductive (1993) (0)
- The virtue of children (1974) (0)
- Meeting Reports: Notes and Commentaries on XVth International Congress of the History ofScience. Edinburgh, Scotland, 10-19 August 1977 (1977) (0)
- Invisible migrant workers (1972) (0)
- Continental Trade Union Organization [Abstract] (1964) (0)
- Book Review:Genetic Alchemy: The Social History of the Recombinant DNA Controversy Sheldon Krimsky (1983) (0)
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