TY - JOUR
AU - La Follette, Marcel C.
AB - Forging the Lipks The scientist who would understand law and technical knowledge. As the legal scholar Morris legal inquiry must be mindful that law has its Cohen has pointed out, “considerable knowledge own unique purposes and values . . . . of the medical and natural sciences,” for example, -Harry W. Jones underpinned the Semitic codes on control of dis- ease and purity of food and water.* Justifications And vice versa. for codes such as these were derived, over many Although for centuries governments have used generations, from experience and from the intu- regulation of all types as a political tool, the con- ition of a few wise advisors. flicts in values apparent in regulatory decision- For modern engineers and scientists, however, making today cannot be blamed on a single ad- the temporal (and practical] link between knowl- ministration or political philosophy. The roots edge and its use in regulatory decisionmaking is and justifications for regulation are social; and much more tightly drawn. Scientists and scientific they spring from profound ethical foundations that, knowledge, engineers and engineering knowledge, in their ideal form, strive for equity and for just are more involved in more ways: as advisors to arbitration of 
TI - Editorial
JF - Science, Technology, & Human Values
DO - 10.1177/016224398400900101
DA - 1984-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/editorial-NAK6RCeu8v
SP - 3
EP - 6
VL - 9
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -