List of books about the politics of science

This is a list of books about the politics of science that have their own articles on Wikipedia.

Environment

Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (2010) by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway

Health

Liberation by Oppression (2002) by Thomas Szasz
Mad in America (2002) by Robert Whitaker
Big Pharma: How the World's Biggest Drug Companies Control Illness (2006) by Jacky Law
Side Effects (2008) by Alison Bass
Bad Science (2008) by Ben Goldacre
Doubt is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health (2008) by David Michaels (epidemiologist)
Anatomy of an Epidemic (2010) by Robert Whitaker
Bad Pharma: How drug companies mislead doctors and harm patients (2012) by Ben Goldacre

Miscellaneous

Bending Science (2008)
Betrayers of the Truth: Fraud and Deceit in the Halls of Science (1983)
Free Radicals: The Secret Anarchy of Science (Profile, 2011) by Michael Brooks
Plastic Fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World (2009)
Science, Money, and Politics: Political Triumph and Ethical Erosion (2001)
Science Under Siege: The Politicians' War on Nature and Truth (1998)
The Great Betrayal: Fraud In Science (2004)
The New Politics of Science (1984)
The Republican War on Science (2005)

Science Policy

Beyond Sputnik: U.S. Science Policy in the 21st Century (2008) by Homer A. Neal, Tobin L. Smith and Jennifer B. McCormick]]
The Science of Science Policy: A Handbook (2010) by Julia Lane, Kaye Husbands Fealing, John Marburger III and Stephanie Shipp (2011)

Further reading

Challenges by Serge Lang (1998)
Hafemeister, David W. (2007). Physics of societal issues : calculations on national security, environment, and energy. New York: Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-95560-5.
Takahashi, Patrick Kenji (2007). Simple solutions for planet earth. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse. ISBN 978-1-4343-2754-3.
The Russian Space Bluff by Leonid Vladimirov (1971)

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