Social responses to large technical systems : control or anticipation

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Preface = ⅶ
• Foreword The Challenge of Understanding Large Technical Systems / Todd R. La Porte = 1
• Large Technical Systems, Real-life Experiments, and the Legitimation Trap of Technology Assessment: The Contribution of Science and Technology to Constituting Risk Perception / Peter Weingart = 5
• The Governance of Large Technical Systems: The Case of Telecommunications / Volker Schneider = 19
• The External Control of Large Technical Systems: Offshore Oil Production Safety and Health Regulation in Great Britain and Norway / Svein S. Andersen = 43
• Facing the Collapse of the Washington Public Power Supply System / Stephen Salsbury = 61
• Iran Air Flight 655 and the USS Vincennes: Complex, Large-scale Military Systems and the Failure of Control / Gene I. Rochlin = 99
• The Aviation Safety Commission: A Task Force Approach to the Evaluation of Large Technical Systems / Clinton V. Oster, Jr = 127
• How Do We Treat Technical Uncertainty in Systems Failure? The Case of the Space Shuttle Challenger / Trevor J. Pinch = 143
• Notes Toward a Sociology of Supercomputing / Donald MacKenzie = 159
• A View from Economic History / Louis Galambos = 177
• A View from the Social Sciences / Renate Mayntz = 181
• Historical Overview / Thomas P. Hughes = 185
• Appendix Conference Agenda and List of participants = 189