The right tools for the job: At work in 20th-century life sciences (1992)
Clarke, Adele E. (Editor)
Fujimura, Joan H. (Editor)
Princeton University Press
Physical Details: xi + 365 pp.; illus.; notes; bibl.; index
Description Contents: Clarke, Adele E., Fujimura, Joan H.: What tools? Which jobs? Why right? Griesemer, James R.: The role of instruments in the generative analysis of science. Jordan, Kathleen, Lynch, Michael: The sociology of a genetic engineering technique: Ritual and rationality in the performance of the “Plasmid Prep”. Taylor, Peter J.: Re/constructing socioecologies: System dynamics modeling of nomadic pastoralists in sub-Saharan Africa. Holmes, Frederic L.: Manometers, tissue slices, and intermediary metabolism. Mitman, Gregg, Fausto-Sterling, Anne: Whatever happened to Planaria? C.M. Child and the physiology of inheritance. Kimmelman, Barbara A.: Organisms and interests in scientific research: R.A. Emerson's claims for the unique contributions of agricultural genetics. Haila, Yrjö: Measuring nature: Quantitative data in field biology. Star, Susan Leigh: Craft vs. commodity, mess vs. transcendence: How the right tool became the wrong one in the case of taxidermy and natural history. Gossel, Patricia Peck: A need for standard methods: The case of American bacteriology. Keating, Peter, Cambrosio, Alberto, Mackenzie, Michael: The tools of the discipline: Standards, models, and measures in the affinity/avidity controversy in immunology.
Review Sapp, J. (1994) Review of "The right tools for the job: At work in 20th-century life sciences". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 124-26).
Review Bourret, P. (1999) Review of "The right tools for the job: At work in 20th-century life sciences". Revue d'Histoire des Sciences (pp. 161-62).
Review Kohler, R.E. (1993) Review of "The right tools for the job: At work in 20th-century life sciences". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 828-29).
Review Fortun, M. (1994) Review of "The right tools for the job: At work in 20th-century life sciences". Journal of the History of Biology (pp. 172-74).
Review Lundmark, V. (1993) Review of "The right tools for the job: At work in 20th-century life sciences". American Journal of Sociology (pp. 841-42).
Review Palladino, P. (1994) Review of "The right tools for the job: At work in 20th-century life sciences". Social Studies of Science (pp. 404-9).
Review Kay, L.E. (1993) Review of "The right tools for the job: At work in 20th-century life sciences". Technology and Culture (pp. 964-66).
Chapter Holmes, Frederic L. (1992) Manometers, tissue slices, and intermediary metabolism. In: The right tools for the job: At work in 20th-century life sciences (p. 151).
Chapter Mitman, Gregg; Fausto-Sterling, Anne (1992) Whatever happened to Planaria? C.M. Child and the physiology of inheritance. In: The right tools for the job: At work in 20th-century life sciences (p. 172).
Chapter Kimmelman, Barbara A. (1992) Organisms and interests in scientific research: R. A. Emerson's claims for the unique contributions of agricultural genetics. In: The right tools for the job: At work in 20th-century life sciences (p. 198).
Chapter Star, Susan Leigh (1992) Craft vs. commodity, mess vs. transcendence: How the right tool became the wrong one in the case of taxidermy and natural history. In: The right tools for the job: At work in 20th-century life sciences (p. 257).
Chapter Gossel, Patricia Peck (1992) A need for standard methods: The case of American bacteriology. In: The right tools for the job: At work in 20th-century life sciences (p. 287).
Chapter Keating, Peter; Cambrosio, Alberto; Mackenzie, Michael (1992) The tools of the discipline: Standards, models, and measures in the affinity/avidity controversy in immunology. In: The right tools for the job: At work in 20th-century life sciences (p. 312).
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