The Science Studies Reader

TRAMA

The Science Studies Reader is a landmark anthology of writing in the burgeoning new field of science studies. Society and the scientific community are today engaging more thoughtfully than ever before the question of what "scientific knowledge" might be. This collection of writings by some of the most prominent thinkers in the field speaks to the nature of science and knowledge across time, cultures, and genders.

NOTE EDITORE

The Reader focuses on the practices of modern and contemporary science and technology located in different national and institutional settings, with some attention to non- Western contexts. By mapping some of the open questions and points of tension likely to occupy the field for years to come, the essays in the Readercast fresh light on what "science" means at the end of the twentieth century.

SOMMARIO

TABLE OF CONTENTS1. MARIO BIAGIOLI--Introduction2. KAREN BARAD--Agential Realism: Feminist Interventions in Understanding Scientific Practices3. MARIO BIAGIOLI--Aporias of Scientific Authorship: Credit and Responsibility in Contemporary Biomedicine4. PIERRE BOURDIEU--The Specificity of Scientific Field and the Social Conditions of the Progress of Reason5. ROBERT M. BRAIN and M. NORTON WISE--Muscles and Engines: Indicator Diagrams and Helmholtz's Graphical Methods6. MICHEL CALLON--Some Elements of a Sociology of Translation: Domestication of the Scallops and the Fisherman of St. Brieuc Bay7. SANDE COHEN--Reading Science Studies Writing8. H. M. COLLINS--The TEA Set: Tacit Knowledge and Scientific Networks9. LORRAINE DASTON--Objectivity and the Escape from Perspective 10. ARNOLD I. DAVIDSON--Styles of Reasoning, Conceptual History, and the Emergence of Psychiatry11. PETER GALISON--Trading Zone: Coordinating Action and Belief12. IAN HACKING--Making Up People13. DONNA J. HARAWAY--Situated Knowledge: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective14. ROGER HART--On the Problem of Chinese Science15. THOMAS P. HUGHES--The Evolution of Large Technological Systems 16. LILY E. KAY--In the Beginning Was the Word?: The Genetic Code and the Book of Life 17. EVELYN FOX KELLER--The Gender/Science System: or, Is Sex to Gender as Nature Is to Science?18. ROBERT E. KOHLER--Moral Economy, Material Culture, and Community in Drosophila Genetics19. BRUNO LATOUR--Give Me a Laboratory and I Will Raise the World20. BRUNO LATOUR--One More Turn After the Social Turn...21. TIMOTHY LENOIR--Was the Last Turn the Right Turn?: The Semiotic Turn and A. J. Greimas22. GEOFFREY LLOYD--Science in Antiquity: The Greek and Chinese Cases and Their Relevance to the Problems of Culture and Cognition23. MICHAEL LYNCH and JOHN LAW--Pictures, Texts, and Objects: The Literary Language Game of Bird-Watching24. DONALD MACKENZIE--Nuclear Missile Testing and the Social Construction of Accuracy25. EMILY MARTIN--Toward an Anthropology of Immunology: The Body as Nation State26. ANDREW PICKERING--The Mangle of Practice: Agency and Emergence in the Sociology of Science27. THEODORE M. PORTER--Quantification and the Accounting Ideal in Science28. PAUL RABINOW--Artificiality and Enlightenment: From Sociobiology to Biosociality29. HANS-JORG RHEINBERGER--Experimental Systems: Historiality, Narration and Deconstruction30. BRIAN ROTMAN--Thinking Dia-Grams: Mathematics, Writing, and Virtual Reality31. JOSEPH ROUSE--Understanding Scientific Practices: Cultural Studies of Science as a Philosophical Program32. SIMON SCHAFFER--Late Victorian Metrology and Its Instrumentation: A Manufactory of Ohms33. STEVEN SHAPIN--The House of Experimentation in Seventeenth-Century England34. SUSAN LEIGH STAR and JAMES R. GRIESEMER--Institutional Ecology, "Translation," and Boundary Objects: Amateurs and Professionals in Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-39 35. SHARON TRAWEEK--Pilgrim's Progress: Male Tales Told during a Life in Physics 36. SHERRY TURKLE--What Are We Thinking about When We Are Thinking about Computers? 37. ALISON WYLIE--The Engendering of Archaeology: Refiguring Feminist Science Studies

AUTORE

Mario Biagioli is Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University and the author of Galileo Courtier (1993).

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780415918671
• Dimensioni: 9.75 x 6.75 in Ø 2.85 lb
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pagine Arabe: 608