Contexts and Culling

dc.contributor.author	Law, John
dc.contributor.author	Moser, Ingunn
dc.date.accessioned	2012-03-26T11:02:11Z
dc.date.available	2012-03-26T11:02:11Z
dc.date.issued	2011
dc.identifier.issn	1552-8251
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11250/98953
dc.description	Preprint	no_NO
dc.description.abstract	This article asks how contexts are made in science as well as in social science, and how the making of contexts relates to political agency and intervention. To explore these issues, it traces contexting for foot and mouth disease and the strategies used to control the epidemic in the UK in 2001. It argues that to depict the world is to assemble contexts and to hold them together in a mode that may be descriptive, explanatory, or predictive. In developing this argument it explores how contexts are assembled in a series of different descriptive and explanatory narratives in epidemiology, policy, critical social science and (feminist) social studies of science.	no_NO
dc.language.iso	eng	no_NO
dc.publisher	Sage	no_NO
dc.subject	science	no_NO
dc.subject	social science	no_NO
dc.subject	foot and mouth disease
dc.subject	epidemics
dc.subject	explanatory narratives
dc.subject	epidemiology
dc.subject	policy
dc.subject	critical social science
dc.subject	feminist studies
dc.title	Contexts and Culling	no_NO
dc.type	Journal article	no_NO
dc.type	Peer reviewed	no_NO
dc.source.journal	Science, technology & human values	no_NO