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100 _aVisvanathan, Shiv
245 _aDemocracy, governance and science: strange case of the missing discipline
260 _c2001
300 _ap.3684-688
362 _a29 Sep
520 _aSTS studies in India have found their impetus and site in social movements rather than in the academe and science policy centres. Our official scientists were eloquent about our nuclear power and our need for greater investment in science. But it is the movements that have provided the great critiques of science. STS in an academic sense has been the case of a missing discipline that democracy in India urgently needs but cannot access. - Reproduced
650 _aDemocracy
650 _aScience and technology
773 _aEconomic and Political Weekly
909 _a50176
999 _c50176
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