Lab Work Goes Social, and Vice Versa: Strategising Public Engagement Processes: Commentary on: "What Happens in the Lab Does Not Stay in the Lab: Applying Midstream Modulation to Enhance Critical Reflection in the Laboratory"

Science and Engineering Ethics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 791-800

  Wynne, Brian ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Governance of innovation; Institutional change; Midstream modulation; Reflexivity; Upstream public engagement in science

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COOPERATION; ENGINEERING; ETHICS; HUMAN; LABORATORY; RESEARCH ETHICS; SCIENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; ENGINEERING; ETHICS, RESEARCH; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; SCIENCE; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; SOCIAL VALUES;

EID: 83455174434     PISSN: 13533452     EISSN: 16605454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-011-9316-9     Document Type: Article

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