05 Dec Is there tension between the exercise of scientific, technological, and/or medical expertise and democratic deliberation and decision-making?
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Please be sure to provide three distinct examples from our course in answering.
As we have come to understand over the course of our class, a central aim of feminist science and technology studies involves persistently posing the questions: what counts as objective knowledge, who or what decides this, and on what basis is knowledge taken to be legitimate or authoritative? During the last four weeks of our course in particular, we’ve explored the relationships between various conceptualizations of expertise and the relationships of expertise to power, privilege, and the possibility of equity, justice, freedom, and democracy.
To your estimation, is there tension between the exercise of scientific, technological,
and/or medical expertise and democratic deliberation and decision-making?
If so, why? If not, why not?
Please be sure to specify how you understand or define the concept of expertise.
Please discuss a minimum of three distinct examples from our course materials that
speak to your answer. Any and all course materials are fair game for use in responses.
