This volume provides a roadmap to the complex interdisciplinary terrain of science and technology studies.

• Provides an accessible overview of science and technology studies.
  
• Features numerous empirical studies and illustrative examples.
  
• Focuses on the central debates and key theoretical advances.
  
• Includes topics such as realism and social construction, discourse and rhetoric, objectivity, the role of experiment and theory, controversies, and the critique of science and technology.