The Right Tools for the Job : At Work in Twentieth-Century Life Sciences /

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This volume examines scientific practice through studies of research tools in an array of twentieth-century life sciences. The contributors draw upon and extend the multidisciplinary perspectives in current science studies to understand the processes through which scientific researchers constructed...

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Otros Autores: Fujimura, Joan H. (Editor ), Clarke, Adele E. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1992]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Biological apparatus and supplies.
SCIENCE > History.
Biologie > Appareils et materiel.
Sciences de la vie > Recherche > Methodologie > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Life sciences > Research > Methodology > History > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • PART I. INTRODUCTION
  • 1. What Tools? Which Jobs? Why Right? / Clark, Adele E. / Fujimura, Joan H.
  • PART II. CO-CONSTRUCTING TOOLS, JOBS, AND RIGHTNESS
  • 2. The Role of Instruments in the Generative Analysis of Science / Griesemer, James R.
  • 3. The Sociology of a Genetic Engineering Technique: Ritual and Rationality in the Performance of the "Plasmid Prep" / Jordan, Kathleen / Lynch, Michael
  • 4. Re/constructing Socioecologies: System Dynamics Modeling of Nomadic Pastoralists in Sub-Saharan Africa / Taylor, Peter J.
  • PART III. DISCIPLINING THE TOOLS
  • 5. Manometers, Tissue Slices, and Intermediary Metabolism / Holmes, Frederic L.
  • 6. Whatever Happened to Planarial C. M. Child and the Physiology of Inheritance / Mitman, Gregg / Fausto-Sterling, Anne
  • 7. Organisms and Interests in Scientific Research: R. A. Emerson's Claims for the Unique Contributions of Agricultural Genetics / Kimmelman, Barbara A.
  • 8. Measuring Nature: Quantitative Data in Field Biology / Haila, Yrjö
  • PART IV. CHANGING CONSTRUCTIONS OF TOOLS, JOBS, AND RIGHTNESS
  • 9. Craft vs. Commodity, Mess vs. Transcendence: How the Right Tool Became the Wrong One in the Case of Taxidermy and Natural History / Star, Susan Leigh
  • 10. A Need for Standard Methods: The Case of American Bacteriology / Gossel, Patricia Peck
  • 11. The Tools of the Discipline: Standards, Models, and Measures in the Affinity/Avidity Controversy in Immunology / Keating, Peter / Cambrosio, Alberto / Mackenzie, Michael
  • INDEX

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