Science as practice and culture / edited by Andrew Pickering.

Science as Practice and Culture explores one of the newest and most controversial developments within the rapidly changing field of science studies: the move toward studying scientific practice--the work of doing science--and the associated move toward studying scientific culture, understood as the...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Pickering, Andrew, 1948-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1992.
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Table of Contents:
  • From science as knowledge to science as practice / Andrew Pickering
  • The self-vindication of the laboratory sciences / Ian Hacking
  • Putting agency back into experiment / David Gooding
  • The couch, the cathedral, and the laboratory : on the relationship between experiment and laboratory in science / Karin Knorr Cetina
  • Constructing quaternions : on the analysis of conceptual practice / Andrew Pickering and Adam Stephanides
  • Crafting science : standardized packages, boundary objects, and "translation" / Joan H. Fujimura
  • Extending Wittgenstein : the pivotal move from epistemology to the sociology of science / Michael Lynch
  • Left and right Wittgensteinians / David Bloor
  • From the "will to theory" to the discursive collage : a reply to Bloor's "Left and right Wittgensteinians" / Michael Lynch
  • Epistemological chicken / H.M. Collins and Steven Yearley.
  • Some remarks about positionism : a reply to Collins and Yearley / Steve Woolgar
  • Don't throw the baby out with the bath school! : a reply to Collins and Yearley / Michel Callon and Bruno Latour
  • Journey into space / H.M. Collins and Steven Yearley
  • Social epistemology and the research agenda of science studies / Steve Fuller
  • Border crossings : narrative strategies in science studies and among physicists in Tsukuba Science City, Japan / Sharon Traweek.