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Laboratory Life : The Construction of Scientific Facts / Steve Woolgar, Bruno Latour; ed. by Jonas Salk.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©1987Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (296 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691028323
  • 9781400820412
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 574.072
LOC classification:
  • QH315 .L315 2013
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1. FROM ORDER TO DISORDER -- Chapter 2. AN ANTHROPOLOGIST VISITS THE LABORATORY -- Chapter 3. THE CONSTRUCTION OF A FACT: THE CASE OF TRF(H) -- Chapter 4. THE MICROPROCESSING OF FACTS -- Chapter 5. CYCLES OF CREDIT -- Chapter 6. THE CREATION OF ORDER OUT OF DISORDER -- REFERENCES -- POSTSCRIPT TO SECOND EDITION (1986) -- ADDITIONAL REFERENCES -- INDEX
Summary: This highly original work presents laboratory science in a deliberately skeptical way: as an anthropological approach to the culture of the scientist. Drawing on recent work in literary criticism, the authors study how the social world of the laboratory produces papers and other "texts,"' and how the scientific vision of reality becomes that set of statements considered, for the time being, too expensive to change. The book is based on field work done by Bruno Latour in Roger Guillemin's laboratory at the Salk Institute and provides an important link between the sociology of modern sciences and laboratory studies in the history of science.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1. FROM ORDER TO DISORDER -- Chapter 2. AN ANTHROPOLOGIST VISITS THE LABORATORY -- Chapter 3. THE CONSTRUCTION OF A FACT: THE CASE OF TRF(H) -- Chapter 4. THE MICROPROCESSING OF FACTS -- Chapter 5. CYCLES OF CREDIT -- Chapter 6. THE CREATION OF ORDER OUT OF DISORDER -- REFERENCES -- POSTSCRIPT TO SECOND EDITION (1986) -- ADDITIONAL REFERENCES -- INDEX

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This highly original work presents laboratory science in a deliberately skeptical way: as an anthropological approach to the culture of the scientist. Drawing on recent work in literary criticism, the authors study how the social world of the laboratory produces papers and other "texts,"' and how the scientific vision of reality becomes that set of statements considered, for the time being, too expensive to change. The book is based on field work done by Bruno Latour in Roger Guillemin's laboratory at the Salk Institute and provides an important link between the sociology of modern sciences and laboratory studies in the history of science.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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