Title
Defining Health, Policy and Science: Legitimating Vertically Integrated Expertise in the WHO EMF Project
Document Type
Book Chapter
RIS ID
31287
Abstract
In 1996 the World Health Organization embarked on an initiative(the WHO EMF Project) that aimed to provide a science and policy consensus on the EMF debate. The following discussion will analyse two aspects of the project. Discussion will contribute to the understanding of the processes by which institutions manipulating vertically integrated knowledge attempt to maintain legitimacy for what are extremely broad epistemologically hybrid activities.
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Publication Details
Mercer, D. W. (2009). Defining Health, Policy and Science: Legitimating Vertically Integrated Expertise in the WHO EMF Project. In A. Bamme, G. Getzinger & B. Wieser (Eds.), Yearbook 2008 of the Institute for Advanced Studies on Science , Technology and Society (pp. 259-276). Austria: Profil.