Rationality and Ritual - Wynne, Brian (Professor of Science Studies, Associate Director of the ESRC Research Centre CESAGen at Lancaster University)

Offers an analysis of science and technology policymaking. By focusing on an episode of major importance in Britain's nuclear history - the Windscale Inquiry, a public hearing about the future of fuel reprocessing - this title also offers a critique of such judicial procedures and the underlying assumptions of the rationalist approach.