Article ID: CBB001034611

Introduction (2011)

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Vetter, Jeremy (Author)


Science in Context
Volume: 24
Pages: 127--141


Publication Date: 2011
Edition Details: Introduction to a special issue: “Lay Participation in the History of Scientific Observation”
Language: English

Why and how have lay people participated in scientific observation? And on what terms have they collaborated with experts and professionals? We have become accustomed to the involvement of lay observers in the practice of many branches of science, including both the natural and human sciences, usually as subordinates to experts. The current surge of interest in this phenomenon, as well as in the closely related topic of how expertise has been constructed, suggests that historians of science can offer a valuable contribution to these vital questions. A historical approach to lay participation allows us to better understand the making of expert-lay relations in science, and it offers a broader, long-term perspective on contemporary debates about that boundary.

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Includes Series Articles

Article Brenna, Brita (2011) Clergymen Abiding in the Fields: The Making of the Naturalist Observer in Eighteenth-Century Norwegian Natural History. Science in Context (p. 143). unapi

Article Werrett, Simon (2011) Watching the Fireworks: Early Modern Observation of Natural and Artificial Spectacles. Science in Context (p. 167). unapi

Article Hochadel, Oliver (2011) Watching Exotic Animals Next Door: “Scientific” Observations at the Zoo (ca. 1870--1910). Science in Context (p. 183). unapi

Article Cain, Victoria (2011) The Art of Authority: Exhibits, Exhibit-Makers, and the Contest for Scientific Status in the American Museum of Natural History, 1920--1940. Science in Context (p. 215). unapi

Article Beckman, Jenny (2011) Collecting Standards: Teaching Botanical Skills in Sweden, 1850--1950. Science in Context (p. 239). unapi

Article Vetter, Jeremy (2011) Lay Observers, Telegraph Lines, and Kansas Weather: The Field Network as a Mode of Knowledge Production. Science in Context (p. 259). unapi

Article Didier, Emmanuel (2011) Counting on Relief: Industrializing the Statistical Interviewer during the New Deal. Science in Context (p. 281). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Adkins, Gregory Matthew
Alberti, Samuel J. M. M.
Barnett, Ronald
Bellon, Richard
Berkowitz, Carin
Chamberland, Celeste
Journals
Journal of the History of Biology
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Science in Context
Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Publishers
University of Oklahoma
University of Chicago Press
University of Pittsburgh Press
Concepts
Amateurs
Professions and professionalization
Science and society
Natural history
Authorities; experts
Observation
People
Engelmann, George
Fountaine, Margaret
Gray, Asa
Home, Everard
Hooker, Joseph Dalton
Miln, James
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
16th century
17th century
18th century
Places
Europe
France
Germany
Russia
United States
England
Institutions
Cornell University
United States. Weather Bureau
Académie Royale des Sciences (France)
Wernerian Natural History Society
Cornell Library of Natural Sounds
Cornell University, Laboratory of Ornithology
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