Publications

• David Mercer, ‘Defining health, policy and science: legitimating vertically integrated expertise in the WHO EMF project’ 2008 Yearbook of the Institute of Advanced Studies on Science and Technology Graz: Austria (eds), Arno Bamme et.al eds, Profil: Munich Forthcoming.
  
• David Mercer, ‘Science, Legitimacy, and Folk Epistemology in Medicine and Law; Parallels Between Legal Reforms to the Admissibility of Expert Evidence and Evidence Based Medicine’, Social Epistemology VoL 22. No. 4 October- December (2008), pp: 405-23.
  
• Gary Edmond and David Mercer: ‘ Special Issue of Law and Policy: 30 years of key contributions to Law and Policy ‘Daubert and the exclusionary ethos: The Convergence of Corporate and Judicial Attitudes towards the Admissibility of Expert Evidence in Tort Litigation’ Virtual Issue: Volume 30 (2008)  (re-issue of 2004 article).
  
• ‘Dialectics of Civic Epistemology’ Conference Proceedings, 7^th Annual IAS STS Conference ‘ Critical Issues in Science and Technology Studies’ 23-8-9 May 2008 Graz, Austria ISBN: 978-3-9502242-7-6 (CD).
  
• David Mercer, ‘HEVIE knowledge’: The Public Accountability of Hyper Expertise and the Vertical Integration of Expertise. 2006 Yearbook of the Institute of Advanced Studies on Science and Technology Graz: Austria (eds), Arno Bamme et.al eds, Profil: Munich (2007) 337-356.
  
• ‘Science, Legitimacy, and Folk Epistemology in Medicine and Law; Parallels Between Legal Reforms to the Admissibility of Expert Evidence and Evidence Based Medicine’, ‘Evidence Workshop’ University of Queensland. 7-9/07. Podcast archived at http://www.representinggenes.org/biohumanities/podcasts/
  
• David Mercer, ‘Capturing the positive educational possibilities of creation science debates?’ in L. S. Jones and M. Reiss (eds) Teaching about Scientific Origins: Taking Account of Creationism, Peter Lang Publishing, New York (2007): 43-58.
  
• Gary Edmond & David Mercer, ‘Anti-social Epistemologies’, Social Studies of Science  (2006) 36: 6. 843-853.
  
• David Mercer, (with J. Ravetz, S. Turner and S. Fuller) ‘A Parting Shot at Misunderstanding: Fuller vs. Kuhn’, Review Symposium of Steve Fuller, Kuhn vs Popper: The Struggle for the Soul of Science, Metascience (2005) 14; 3-32.
  
• David Mercer, ‘Seen but not heard: Can STS shape policy in controversial areas of science’ 2004 Yearbook of the Institute of Advanced Studies on Science and Technology Graz: Austria (eds), Arno Bamme et.al eds, Profil: Munich (2005) 351-66.

Presentations and Conference Papers

• ‘The Politics of Expertise and the EMF debate’, invited paper, School of Social Studies, University of Masaryk  Brno, Czech Republic. 28/2.2005.
  
• ‘Science, Legitimacy, and Folk Epistemology in Medicine and Law; Parallels Between Legal Reforms to the Admissibility of Expert Evidence and Evidence Based Medicine’, Invited presentation to ‘Evidence Workshop’ University of Queensland.  Bio-humanities Program, University of Queensland (main sponsor) and by the Centre for Time, University of Sydney. 9/1/2007.
  
• ‘Science Fit for Court’ Spring Colloquium Series, Department of Science and Technology Studies Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.  16/4/2007.
  
• ‘The Public Accountability of Vertically Integrated expertise’, Plenary Session 4^rh Annual IAS-STS Conference: ‘Critical Issues in Science and Technology Studies’, Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society, Graz, Austria.  25/2/2005.
  
• ‘HEVIE KNOWLEDGE’, Hyper-Expertise and Vertical Integration of Expertise: Some theoretical Considerations.Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Conference, 4S: Pasadena: California, USA. 22/10/05.
  
• ‘Legitimating De-specialized Expertise’ Australasian Association for the History Philosophy and Social Studies of Science Annual Conference, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 7/12/05.
  
• ‘The Trojan Mobile: EMF as an Agent for Technological Change’ ,  5^rh Annual IAS-STS Conference: ‘Critical Issues in Science and Technology Studies’, Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society, Graz, Austria. 26/ 5/06.
  
• ‘Anti-Social Epistemologies’ 2006 Australasian Association for Philosophy Annual Conference, (AAHPSSS stream) 4/7/06.
  
• ‘Dialectics of Civic Epistemology‘ Critical Issues in Science and Technology Studies’ 7^th Annual IAS,STS conference, May 9^th 2008 Graz, Austria.
  
• ‘Defining health, policy and science: legitimating vertically integrated expertise in the WHO EMF project’, July 10 2008, Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for The History Philosophy and Social Studies of Science, Melbourne, Australia.
  
• ‘Reconsidering Socio-technical Frameworks for Carbon Centric Computing Innovation’ Paper presented to National Research Summit on Carbon-centric Computing: IT solutions FOR climate change 24^th  November  2008,  University of Wollongong (with Robert B.K. Brown).
  
• ‘STS impact assessment’: reflections on the impact of STS expertise in legal and regulatory settings involving controversial science: Paper presented to  ‘Towards STS Networking in the Asia Pacific Workshop, Institute for Environmental Research, Victoria University, Wellington:  New Zealand Dec 2, 2008. http://apstsnzworkshop.blogspot.com/