Kohler, Robert E. (Author)
After a productive start in the 1980s, laboratory history is now surprisingly neglected---not lab science, but the lab as social institution. To restart interest, I suggest that we see labs as period specific (early modern, modern, postmodern) and of a piece with each era's dominant social institutions and practices. In the modern era, for example, labs have become powerful and ubiquitous because their operating principles are those of the nation-state and its consumerist political economy. Their educational function is crucial: labs have authority because they are an effective vehicle for educating en masse for life in modern states; they provide general entry to careers in scores of disciplines and a thousand occupations; and they embody prevailing ideals of a meritocracy of competence, transparency (through publication), and a universalistic logic of objectivity. An older microhistory of laboratory practices may thus be reborn as a systematic, macrosocial history of the lab.
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Article Klein, Ursula (2008) The Laboratory Challenge: Some Revisions of the Standard View of Early Modern Experimentation. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 769).
Article Gooday, Graeme (2008) Placing or Replacing the Laboratory in the History of Science?. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 783).
Book
Christina Helena da Motta Barboza;
Sérgio Tadeu de Niemeyer Lamarão;
Cristina de Amorim Machado;
(2015)
Da Serra da Mantiqueira às Montanhas do Havaí – A História do Laboratório Nacional de Astrofísica
Article
Simmons, Anna;
(2014)
Stills, Status, Stocks and Science: The Laboratories at Apothecaries' Hall in the Nineteenth Century
Article
Ioffe, B. L.;
(2012)
The First Dozen Years of the History of ITEP Theoretical Physics Laboratory
Article
Barona, J. L.;
(2007)
Los laboratorios de la Junta para Ampliación de Estudios e Investigaciones Científicas (J. A.E.) y la Residencia de Estudiantes (1912--1939)
Article
Gars, Stéphane Le;
Aubin, David;
(2009)
The Elusive Placelessness of the Mont-Blanc Observatory (1893--1909): The Social Underpinnings of High-Altitude Observation
Article
Chakrabarti, Pratik;
(2010)
Beasts of Burden: Animals and Laboratory Research in Colonial India
Article
Smith, Robert W.;
(2001)
Introduction
Article
Benson, Keith R.;
(2001)
Summer Camp, Seaside Station, and Marine Laboratory: Marine biology and its institutional identity
Article
Klein, Ursula;
(2008)
The Laboratory Challenge: Some Revisions of the Standard View of Early Modern Experimentation
Article
Slayton, Rebecca;
(2012)
From a “Dead Albatross” to Lincoln Labs: Applied Research and the Making of a Normal Cold War University
Article
Caitlin Donahue Wylie;
(2015)
‘The Artist’s Piece Is Already in the Stone’: Constructing Creativity in Paleontology Laboratories
Chapter
Findlen, Paula;
(2001)
Building the House of Knowledge: The Structures of Thought in Late Renaissance Europe
Article
Moore, P. G.;
(2015)
New Insights into the Controversy Surrounding Marine Biological Laboratory (Marine Station) Facilities in the Firth of Clyde in the Early Twentieth Century
Chapter
Christian Carletti;
(2014)
Keeping Abreast with the Technology of Science: The Economic Life of the Physics Laboratory at the University of Padua, 1847-1857
Chapter
Panagiotis Lazos;
George N. Vlahakis;
Constantine Skordoulis;
(2019)
Instruments and Laboratories in the Schools of the Greek Community of Istanbul, 1850–1960
Article
Kaji, Masanori;
(2011)
The Role of Riko Majima in the Formation of the Research Tradition of Organic Chemistry in Japan
Article
Jackson, Catherine M.;
(2011)
Chemistry as the Defining Science: Discipline and Training in Nineteenth-Century Chemical Laboratories
Book
Westwick, Peter J.;
(2003)
The National Labs: Science in an American System, 1947-1974
Book
Sánchez Ron, José M.;
Lafuente, Antonio;
(2007)
El laboratorio de España: La Junta para Ampliación de Estudios e Investigaciones Científicas (1907--1939). Catálogo de la Exposición (MC/MEC/ Fundación Giner de los Ríos)
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Kraft, Alison;
Alberti, Samuel J. M. M.;
(2003)
“Equal Though Different”: Laboratories, Museums and the Institutional Development of Biology in Late-Victorian Northern England
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