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Choose one of the following essay questions:
What are the benefits and limitations of markets in promoting research aimed at solving social-ecological problems that are most prevalent in developing countries? In your answer refer to the example of sleeping sickness in sub-Saharan Africa and integrate the perspective of Brand, Jasanoff and Smith (if they have one, either implicitly or explicitly articulated) on the essay question and following concepts in relation to the essay question:
progress
technological determinism
justice
responsibility
gender
local knowledge
or
B) What makes geoengineering more complicated to govern than GMOs or nuclear energy? Refer to Brand, Jasanoff and Smith’s perspectives on technocracy, sociotechnical risks and the governance of science and technology in addressing social-environmental issues in your answer.
Stewart Brand. 2009. Whole Earth Discipline. Penguin Books. You can view it online via the Hathi
Trust ETAS though
James Smith. 2009. Science and Technology for Development. ZED Books.
Sheila Jasanoff. 2016. The Ethics of Invention. Technology and the Human Future. Norton & Cie.
