The present volume elucidates the scope of responsibility in science and technology governance
by way of assimilating insights gleaned from sociological theory and STS and by investigating
the ways in which responsibility unfolds in social processes. Drawing on these theoretical
perspectives the volume goes on to review a 'heuristic model' of responsibility. Such a model
provides a simple tentative though no less coherent analytical framework for further
examining the idea of responsibility its transformations configurations and contradictions.
