Vetter, Jeremy (Author)
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.
...MoreDescription Contents:
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).
Article Werrett, Simon (2011) Watching the Fireworks: Early Modern Observation of Natural and Artificial Spectacles. Science in Context (p. 167).
Article Hochadel, Oliver (2011) Watching Exotic Animals Next Door: “Scientific” Observations at the Zoo (ca. 1870--1910). Science in Context (p. 183).
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).
Article Beckman, Jenny (2011) Collecting Standards: Teaching Botanical Skills in Sweden, 1850--1950. Science in Context (p. 239).
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).
Article Didier, Emmanuel (2011) Counting on Relief: Industrializing the Statistical Interviewer during the New Deal. Science in Context (p. 281).
Article
Loskutova, Marina;
(2014)
Early Research on Insect Pests in the Russian Empire: Bureaucracy, Academic Community and Local Knowledge in the 1830s–1840s
Article
Hochadel, Oliver;
(2011)
Watching Exotic Animals Next Door: “Scientific” Observations at the Zoo (ca. 1870--1910)
Article
Alberti, Samuel J. M. M;
(2001)
Amateurs and Professionals in One County: Biology and Natural History in Late Victorian Yorkshire
Book
Nyhart, Lynn K.;
(2009)
Modern Nature: The Rise of the Biological Perspective in Germany
Article
Barry Sturman;
David Garrioch;
(2023)
Amateur Science and Innovation in Fireworks in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Article
Bill Jenkins;
(2022)
The ‘Stronsay Beast’: Testimony, evidence and authority in early nineteenth-century natural history
Article
Vetter, Jeremy;
(2011)
Lay Observers, Telegraph Lines, and Kansas Weather: The Field Network as a Mode of Knowledge Production
Article
Waring, Sophie;
(2015)
Margaret Fountaine: A Lepidopterist Remembered
Article
Adkins, G. Matthew;
(2008)
The Renaissance of Peiresc: Aubin-Louis Millin and the Postrevolutionary Republic of Letters
Article
Sean F. Johnston;
(2018)
Vaunting the Independent Amateur: Scientific American and the Representation of Lay Scientists
Article
Loskutova, M. V.;
(2011)
Amateurs and Professionals: Science in a Russian Province from the Second Half of the 19th Century to the Beginning of the 20th Century
Chapter
Barnett, Ronald;
(2005)
Re-opening Research: New Amateurs or New Professsionals?
Thesis
Jackson Pope;
(2016)
Listening at the Lab: Bird Watchers and the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
Article
Ylva Söderfeldt;
(2021)
The Truth Within: Making Medical Knowledge in the Hay Fever Association of Heligoland, 1899–1909
Book
Carin Berkowitz;
Bernard Lightman;
(2017)
Science Museums in Transition: Cultures of Display in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America
Article
Bellon, Richard;
(2001)
Joseph Dalton Hooker's Ideals for a Professional Man of Science
Article
Nathalie Richard;
Hadrien Viraben;
(2023)
The Work of a Dilettante or a Grand Amateur? The Visual Productions of a 19th-Century Gentleman Archaeologist
Article
Chamberland, Celeste;
(2013)
From Apprentice to Master: Social Disciplining and Surgical Education in Early Modern London, 1570--1640
Article
Shuttleworth, Sally;
(2012)
Historicism, Science and the Dangers of Being Useful
Article
Kuang-Chi Hung;
(2019)
Subscribing to Specimens, Cataloging Subscribed Specimens, and Assembling the First Phytogeographical Survey in the United States
Be the first to comment!