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Tables of Contents for The Fifth Branch
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Rationalizing Politics
1
19
The Rise of Social Regulation
2
2
Science and Policymaking
4
5
Expertise and Trust
9
3
The Contingency of Knowledge
12
3
The Reform Debate
15
2
An Alternative Approach
17
3
Flawed Decisions
20
19
Nitrites
21
3
2,4,5-T
24
2
Love Canal
26
3
Estimates of Occupational Cancer
29
3
The Technocratic Response
32
4
A Critical Counterpoint
36
3
Science for the People
39
22
The Rationale for Public Science
40
3
The ``New'' Expert Agency
43
2
Scientific Advice and Open Government
45
4
Judicial Review of Science Policy
49
8
The Weakening of the Paradigm
57
4
Peer Review and Regulatory Science
61
23
The Traditions of Peer Review
62
2
Peer Review in Practice
64
5
Instructive Failures
69
7
Regulatory Science: Content and Context
76
3
Implications for Regulatory Peer Review
79
5
EPA and the Science Advisory Board
84
17
Early Political Challenges
84
5
A New Cooperation
89
6
Boundary Exercises
95
2
SAB's Impact on Policy
97
2
Conclusion
99
2
The Science and Policy of Clean Air
101
22
CASAC and the NAAQS Process
102
2
Science and Standards
104
8
Redefining CASAC's Role
112
8
The Carbon Monoxide Controversy
120
1
CASAC's Effectiveness: Bridging Science and Policy
121
2
Advisers as Adversaries
123
29
The Scientific Advisory Panel
124
3
Implementing the Impossible
127
3
Ethylene Dibromide
130
7
Dicofol
137
4
Alar
141
8
A Fragmentation of Authority
149
3
FDA's Advisory Network
152
28
The Scientific Evaluation of Drugs
154
11
Expertise and Food Safety
165
12
Advice and Decision
177
3
Coping with New Knowledge
180
28
The Quest for Principled Risk Assessment
181
12
Formaldehyde: An Uncertain Carcinogen
193
13
Conclusion
206
2
Technocracy Revisited
208
21
A Public-Private Partnership for Science
209
7
Risk Assessment without Politics
216
6
The Public Board of Inquiry
222
4
Wider Applications
226
3
The Political Function of Good Science
229
24
From Advice to Policy
230
2
Acceptable Risk
232
2
Scientific Advice as Legitimation: Negotiation and Boundary Work
234
2
Defining ``Good Science''
236
5
Normative Implications
241
8
Conclusion
249
4
Notes
253
40
Index
293