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Nature volume 309, pages 813–814 (1984)Cite this article

The New Politics of Science.

By David Dickson. Pantheon, New York: 1984. Pp.374. $22.95.

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  1. Professor in the Cornell University Program on Science, Technology and Society, and a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, New York. She is author of Science as Intellectual Property (Macmillan, 1984), and, with Michael S. Brown, of Workers at Risk ( University of Chicago Press, 1984).

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