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Picture Control : The Electron Microscope and the Transformation of Biology in America, 1940-1960 /
Two major questions motivate this study: How do new devices get taken up as experimental systems by scientists? How does the adoption of new instruments affect scientific knowledge? Many ramifications emerge from these two simple questions. Among these are historical questions about how, by whom, an...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, CA :
Stanford University Press,
[2022]
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| Colección: | Writing Science
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Tables and Figures
- Note on Usage of Technical Terms
- Introduction: Scientific Knowledge and Its Means of Production
- 1. RCA and the War Years
- Stuart Mudd and His School of Bacteriological Electron Microscopy
- 3 The Rockefeller School and the Rise of Cell Biology
- 4· Muscle, Nerve, and the Iron Men of MIT
- 5· Wendell Stanley, Robley Williams, and the Land of the Virus
- 6. Through Another Looking Glass: Lived Experience and Biological Electron Microscopy
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index