Michael Gibbons, Peter Scott and Janet Atkinson Grosjean
CBC Radio's Ideas: How to Think About Science
In recent years, historians, sociologists, philosophers and sometimes scientists themselves have begun to ask fundamental questions about how the institution of science is structured and how it knows what it knows. David Cayley talks to some of the leading lights of this new field of study in this special series for CBC Radio's Ideas.
"Science has spoken... to society for more than half a millenium... In the past half century science has begun to speak back." So say the authors of a book called "Rethinking Science." Michael Gibbons and Peter Scott share their thoughts on the growing integration of science and society. And Janet Atkinson Grosjean discusses her new book "Public Science, Private Interest" which looks at how Canadian science policy tries to harness science to social and economic goals. 
