Introduction to a set of three reviews on Standards: Recipes for Reality (Busch, 2011), and Scientists and the Regulation of Risk: Standardising Control (Demortain, 2011)

摘要

In the autumn of 2011 Science and Public Policy sent out a call for reviews of two books recently published on standardisation: Standards: Recipes for Reality (Busch, 2011), and Scientists and the Regulation of Risk: Standardising Control (Demortain, 2011). The popularity of the titles was such that when Fern Wickson suggested a review series we took advantage of her offer to review both books. Tolu Odumosu and Joel D'Silva then agreed to write reviews of each separately. Published here are the results of the experiment.