@inbook{0b86dded0cc44eb6bda3a1b4dcfbb7b0,
title = "Science and Technology Studies",
abstract = "Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a multi-disciplinary field of scholarship concerned with the interrelations between science, technology and society. Comprising a variety of intellectual approaches from anthropology, sociology, history and philosophy of science, it is characterised by critiques of essentialism, positivism and determinism. Although not defined by any single methodological approach, a distinctive hallmark is the use of empirical case studies and the analysis of everyday work practices. Here, we introduce key developments in STS, from the Strong Programme in the 1970s, via the Social Construction of Technology and Actor-Network Theory, to Feminist and Postcolonial Technoscience. In the second part of the entry, we discuss some of the major ways STS has been applied in health research and social studies of medicine more broadly, with key examples from the literature.",
keywords = "science, technology, society, knowledge, philosophy, practices",
author = "Montgomery, {Catherine M.}",
year = "2023",
month = dec,
day = "28",
doi = "10.4337/9781800885691.ch51",
language = "English",
isbn = "978180088568",
series = "Elgar Encyclopedias in the Social Sciences ",
publisher = "Edward Elgar Publishing",
pages = "281--285",
editor = "Kevin Dew and Sarah Donovan",
booktitle = "Encyclopedia of Health Research in the Social Sciences",
address = "United Kingdom",
}