Lenoir, Timothy (Author)
Stanford University Press
Physical Details: xiii + 353 pp.; illus.; notes; index
Description Contents: Practice, reason, context: The dialogue between theory and experiment. The discipline of nature and the nature of discipline. Social interests and the organic physics of 1847. Science for the clinic: Science policy and the formation of Carl Ludwig's Institute in Leipzig. The politics of vision: Optics, painting, and ideology in Germany, 1845-95. A magic bullet: Research for profit and the growth of knowledge in Germany around 1900. Practical reason and the construction of knowledge: The lifeworld of Haber-Bosch. Instrument makers and discipline builders: The case of nuclear magnetic resonance (in collaboration with Christophe Lécuyer).
Review Valone, D.A. (1998) Review of "Instituting science: The cultural production of scientific disciplines". History of Education Quarterly (pp. 479-80).
Review Pickering, A. (1999) Review of "Instituting science: The cultural production of scientific disciplines". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 186-88).
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