Book ID: CBB000072251

Instituting science: The cultural production of scientific disciplines (1997)

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Lenoir, Timothy (Author)


Stanford University Press


Publication Date: 1997
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).


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Authors & Contributors
Knorr-Cettina, Karin D.
Yearley, Steven
Brante, Thomas
Callon, Michel
Chu, Ellen W.
Chubin, Daryl E.
Journals
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
British Journal of Sociology
Perspectives on Science
Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Publishers
Sage
Éditions La Découverte
Indiana University Press
Kluwer Academic
Macmillan
Macmillan of Australia
Concepts
Sociology of knowledge
Science
Philosophy of science
Secularization
Nature
Technoscience
People
Fleck, Ludwik
Latour, Bruno
Pujiula, Jaime
Serres, Michel
Stengers, Isabelle
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
21st century
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