Exploring Expertise

HARRY COLLINS Department of Sociology, University of SouthamptonGILLIAN HARDSTONE CENTRIM, University of BrightonJOANNE HARTLAND School of Social Science, University of BathROBERT HOFFMAN Department of Psychology, Adelphi University, New York, USAJOHN HOWELLS Department of Business and Management, Brunel UniversityDONALD MACKENZIE Department of Sociology, University of EdinburghMAUREEN MCNEIL Department of Cultural Studies, University of BirminghamROB PROCTER Department of Computer Science, University of EdinburghPAOLO SAVIOTTI Universite Pierre Mendes-FranceJACKY SENKER Science Policy Research Unit, University of SussexNIGEL SHADBOLT Department of Psychology, Nottingham UniversityGRAHAM SPINARDI RCSS, University of Edinburgh

• Issues and Perspectives; W. Faulkner, J. Fleck & R. Williams On the Economics of Expertise; P. Saviotti Gender, Expertise and Feminism; M. McNeil How Can Expertise Be Defined?; R. Hoffman Building Models of Expertise; N. Shadbolt The Structure of Knowledge; H.M. Collins Information Flow and the Nature of Expertise; J. Fleck Knowledge Flows in Innovation; W. Faulkner Trading Places: a Case Study of the Formation and Deployment of Computing Expertise; R. Procter & R. Williams The Contribution of Tacit Knowledge to Innovation; J. Senker Nuclear Weapons Experts; G. Spinardi Management and the Hybridisation of Expertise in Network Design; J. Howells 'You'll Figure it Out Between You'; G. Hardstone Automating Blood Pressure Measurements: The Division of Labour and the Transformation of Method; J. Hartland The Certainty Trough; D. MacKenzie