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Participant Index for the Society for the Social Studies of Science meeting in Tokyo, 2010

A listing of the registered presenters at the 4S meeting in Tokyo, August 25-29, 2010. Read more

Program of the 2010 4S Meeting in Tokyo

This is the print program of the meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), which took place from August 25th to 29th, 2010, in Tokyo, Japan.Read more

A report on the 2010 4S conference in Tokyo

http://somatosphere.net/2011/01/report-on-2010-4s-conference-in-tokyo.html

STS in Japan and East Asia: Governance of Science and Technology and Public Engagement

This 2009 article by Yuko Fujigaki describes the development of Japanese STS from the 1980s up to the planning processes for the 2010 4S Meeting in Tokyo. The article also focuses on analyzing historical case studies (Minamata disease, itai-itai disease, the Monju nuclear power plant incidents)...Read more