Book ID: CBB000051519

The right tools for the job: At work in 20th-century life sciences (1992)

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Clarke, Adele E. (Editor)
Fujimura, Joan H. (Editor)


Princeton University Press


Publication Date: 1992
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.


Reviewed By

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). unapi

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). unapi

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). unapi

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). unapi

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). unapi

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). unapi

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). unapi

Includes Chapters

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). unapi

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). unapi

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). unapi

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). unapi

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). unapi

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). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Borghini, Andrea
Adriana Giannini
Christopher W. McCracken
Moynihan, Thomas
Derek Van Ittersum
Herrero, Miguel A
Concepts
Biology
Philosophy
Evolution
Genetics
Philosophy of biology
Psychology
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
Early modern
20th century, early
Places
United States
Bogotá (Colombia)
Colombia
France
Institutions
Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
International Biological Program
Rutgers University
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