Nancy Ellen Abrams and Joel R.
Primack
For additional info on Nancy Ellen Abrams: bio bookbio photo
For additional info on Joel R. Primack: scipp bio longerbio bookbio photo photo2
Website for Joel and Nancy’s book View
from the Center of the Universe: Discovering Our Extraordinary Place in the
Cosmos (Riverhead/Penguin, 2006; HarperCollins, 2006; foreign editions,
2008-): http://viewfromthecenter.com
website: http://scipp.ucsc.edu/personnel/profiles/primack.html
Articles on Science and Technology Advice
“Scientific Mediation and Technology Policy Convergence,” by Joel R. Primack and Nancy E. Abrams, in Science and Technology Advice to the President, Congress, and the Judiciary, edited by William T. Golden (Pergamon Press, 1988; 2nd edition, AAAS, 1993), pp. 275-279. PDF
“The Public and Technological
Decisions,” by Nancy E. Abrams and Joel R. Primack, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 36 (6), 44-48 (June 1980). PDF
“Helping the Public Decide,” by Nancy E. Abrams and Joel R. Primack, Environment 22 (3), 14-20, 39-40 (April 1980). PDF
“Nuclear Politics in Sweden,” by Nancy E. Abrams, Environment 21 (4), 6-11, 39-40 (May 1979). PDF
“Mediation: a better alternative to science courts,” by Nancy Ellen Abrams and R. Stephen Berry, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 33 (4), 50-53 (April 1977). PDF
Talks
“The Congressional Science Fellowship Program and Other Efforts to Improve Decisionmaking on Technology,” invited talk at the Carnegie Institution conference in May 2004 celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Congressional Science and Technology Fellowship Program, published in the Proceedings (AAAS, 2005). PDF
“Nuclear Waste Disposal: An Independent View of the Big Picture and a Proposal for CARD,” by Nancy E. Abrams, at the 1998 conference of Citizens for Alternatives to Radioactive Dumping, Carlsbad, NM. PDF
