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Cultures without Culturalism : The Making of Scientific Knowledge /
Cultural accounts of scientific ideas and practices have increasingly come to be welcomed as a corrective to previous-and still widely held-theories of scientific knowledge and practices as universal. The editors caution, however, against the temptation to overgeneralize the work of culture, and to...
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2017.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Karine Chemla and Everlyn Fox Keller
- Part I. Stating the problem : Cultures without culturalism
- On invoking "culture" in the analysis of behavior in financial markets / Donald MacKenzie
- Cultural difference and sameness : historiographic reflections on histories of physics in modern Japan / Kenji Ito
- The cultural politics of an African AIDS vaccine : the Vanhivax controversy in Cameroon, 2001-2011 / Guillaume Lachenal
- Worrying about essentialism : from feminist theory to epistemological cultures / Evelyn Fox Keller
- Part II. Distinguishing the many dimensions of encultured practice
- Hybrid devices : embodiments of culture in biomedical engineering / Nancy J. Nersessian
- Glass ceilings and sticky floors : drawing new ontologies / Mary S. Morgan
- Modes of exchange : the culture and politics of public demonstrations / Claude Rosental
- Styles in mathematical practice / David Rabouin
- Part III. The making of scientific cultures
- Historicizing culture : a revaluation of early modern science and culture / Koen Vermeir
- From quarry to paper : Cuvier's three epistemological cultures / Bruno Belhoste
- Cultures of experimentation / Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
- The people's war against earthquakes : cultures of mass science in Mao's China / Fa-Ti Fan
- Part IV. What is at stake?
- E Uno Plures? Unity and diversity in Galois theory, 1832-1900 / Caroline Ehrhardt
- Changing mathematical cultures, conceptual history, and the circulation of knowledge : a case study based on mathematical sources from ancient China / Karine Chemla.