The Science Studies Reader

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.

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. MARIO BIAGIOLI--Introduction
2. KAREN BARAD--Agential Realism: Feminist Interventions in Understanding Scientific Practices
3. MARIO BIAGIOLI--Aporias of Scientific Authorship: Credit and Responsibility in Contemporary Biomedicine
4. PIERRE BOURDIEU--The Specificity of Scientific Field and the Social Conditions of the Progress of Reason
5. ROBERT M. BRAIN and M. NORTON WISE--Muscles and Engines: Indicator Diagrams and Helmholtz's Graphical Methods
6. MICHEL CALLON--Some Elements of a Sociology of Translation: Domestication of the Scallops and the Fisherman of St. Brieuc Bay
7. SANDE COHEN--Reading Science Studies Writing
8. H. M. COLLINS--The TEA Set: Tacit Knowledge and Scientific Networks
9. LORRAINE DASTON--Objectivity and the Escape from Perspective
10. ARNOLD I. DAVIDSON--Styles of Reasoning, Conceptual History, and the Emergence of Psychiatry
11. PETER GALISON--Trading Zone: Coordinating Action and Belief
12. IAN HACKING--Making Up People
13. DONNA J. HARAWAY--Situated Knowledge: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective
14. ROGER HART--On the Problem of Chinese Science
15. 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 Genetics
19. BRUNO LATOUR--Give Me a Laboratory and I Will Raise the World
20. 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. Greimas
22. GEOFFREY LLOYD--Science in Antiquity: The Greek and Chinese Cases and Their Relevance to the Problems of Culture and Cognition
23. MICHAEL LYNCH and JOHN LAW--Pictures, Texts, and Objects: The Literary Language Game of Bird-Watching
24. DONALD MACKENZIE--Nuclear Missile Testing and the Social Construction of Accuracy
25. EMILY MARTIN--Toward an Anthropology of Immunology: The Body as Nation State
26. ANDREW PICKERING--The Mangle of Practice: Agency and Emergence in the Sociology of Science
27. THEODORE M. PORTER--Quantification and the Accounting Ideal in Science
28. PAUL RABINOW--Artificiality and Enlightenment: From Sociobiology to Biosociality
29. HANS-JORG RHEINBERGER--Experimental Systems: Historiality, Narration and Deconstruction
30. BRIAN ROTMAN--Thinking Dia-Grams: Mathematics, Writing, and Virtual Reality
31. JOSEPH ROUSE--Understanding Scientific Practices: Cultural Studies of Science as a Philosophical Program
32. SIMON SCHAFFER--Late Victorian Metrology and Its Instrumentation: A Manufactory of Ohms
33. STEVEN SHAPIN--The House of Experimentation in Seventeenth-Century England
34. 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

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