Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch, The Golem at Large: What You Should Know about Technology (Cambridge: Cabridge University Press, 1998)


Preface and acknowledgements

Introduction: the technological golem
 

1. A clean kill?: the role of Patriot in the Gulf War

2. The naked launch: assigning blame for the Challenger explotion

3. Crash!: nuclear fuel flasks and anti-misting kerosene on trial

4. The world according to Gold: disputes about the origins of oil

5. Tidings of comfort and joy: Seven Wise Men and the science of economics

6. The science of the lambs: Chernobyl and the Cumbrian sheepfarmers

7. ACTing UP: AIDS cures and lay expertise
 

Conclusion: the golem goes to work