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- Title
Using the boundaries of science to do boundary-work among scientists: pollution and purity claims.
- Authors
Swedlow, Brendon
- Abstract
The primary purpose of this article is to demonstrate how the boundary between science and nonscience gets used to do boundary-work among scientists. Claims that scientists have been polluted by breaches of this boundary, or, conversely, claims that scientists remain pure and unpolluted, are effectively ways to construct boundaries within science, between more and less authoritative scientists. A secondary purpose of this article is to identify sources of pollution and purity claims. Examples are taken from a case study of the role owl and forest scientists played in constructing nature and environmental policy in the Pacific Northwest.
- Subjects
PACIFIC Northwest; SCIENCE; POLLUTION; LEGAL claims; SCIENTISTS; ENVIRONMENTAL policy
- Publication
Science & Public Policy (SPP), 2007, Vol 34, Issue 9, p633
- ISSN
0302-3427
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3152/030234207X264953