The public nature of science under assault : politics, markets, science and the law / Helga Nowotny [and others].

Berlin ; New York : Springer, [2005], ©2005.

vi, 148 pages ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The changing nature of public science / Helga Nowotny -- The technosciences between markets, social worries and the political : how to imagine a better future? / Dominique Pestre -- Comment from a legal perspective / Hans-Heinrich Trute -- Responses of the legal order to the loss of trust in science / Helmuth Schulze-Fielitz -- Democratizing science : expertise and participation in administrative decision-making / Hans-Heinrich Trute -- Free access to research findings and its limitations / Eberhard Schmidt-Assmann -- The response of the legal order : final commentary from a social studies of science perspective / Helga Nowotny.