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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Review Valone, D.A. (1998) Review of "Instituting science: The cultural production of scientific disciplines". History of Education Quarterly (pp. 479-80). unapi

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). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Ziman, John M.
Wright, Will
Turnbull, David
Stern, Peter
Slezak, Peter
Rupp, Erik
Concepts
Science
Sociology of knowledge
Nuclear Weapons
Sterility; infertility
Time Periods
18th century
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