{"product_id":"science-on-stage-expert-advice-as-public-drama-paperback-softback-9780804736466","title":"Science on Stage; Expert Advice As Public Drama (Paperback \/ softback) 9780804736466","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eScience on Stage\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eExpert Advice As Public Drama\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eStephen Hilgartner (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780804736466\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 October 2000\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e236 pages, 7 tables, 5 figures\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.318 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"A useful contribution to discussions of methodologies for examining the role of scientific experts in public policy debates.\"—\u003ci\u003eNew Genetics and Society\u003c\/i\u003e \"Hilgartner's portrait of the emergent debates over diet, health, and disease prevention, and of the NAS and its proceduces for producing expert advice, is thorough and interesting. . . . For those interested in the burgeoning field of science and technology studies, for socioloists of knowledge and the still-lively crowd of Goffman students, this book will be quite interesting. . . . What remains most impressive about the book is how it quietly performs that magic trick of a useful sociology: to make visible the invisible.\"—\u003ci\u003eAmerican Journal of Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eBehind the headlines of our time stands an unobtrusive army of science advisors. Panels of scientific, medical, and engineering experts evaluate the safety of the food we eat, the drugs we take, and the cars we drive. But despite the enormous influence of science advice, its authority is often problematic, and struggles over expert advice are thus a crucial aspect of contemporary politics. \u003ci\u003eScience on Stage\u003c\/i\u003e is a theoretically informed and empirically grounded study of the social process through which the credibility of expert advice is produced, challenged, and sustained.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBuilding on the sociology of Erving Goffman, the author analyzes science advice as a form of performance, examining how advisory bodies work to bring authoritative advice to the public stage. From this perspective, advisory bodies emerge as performers who engage in impression management: they selectively reveal and conceal themselves, actively presenting some things to their audiences while hiding others \"backstage.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book demonstrates that techniques for information control—including stagecraft, strategic self-presentation, and unauthorized disclosures or \"leaks\"—play a fundamental role in efforts to create and contest expert authority. The author uncovers this complex assemblage of dramaturgical machinery through a richly detailed comparative analysis of three controversial reports on diet and health, including a proposed revision to the Recommended Daily Allowances, prepared by the National Academy of Sciences—the most prestigious source of expert advice in the United States today.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis lively and accessible analysis—which includes its own drama, complete with Greek chorus—provides not only new insights about science advice but also a fresh look at the social dimensions of scientific writing. The theatrical metaphor highlights issues that more familiar theoretical frameworks often leave waiting in the wings. In the author's hands, scientific texts emerge not just as rhetorical constructions or forms of discourse, but also as crucial parts of systems for controlling the enclosure and disclosure of information, and thereby for structuring relations between experts and their audiences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52681771286808,"sku":"9780804736466","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/science-on-stage-expert-advice-as-public-drama-paperback-softback-9780804736466","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}