Doing Science + Culture : How cultural and interdisciplinary studies are changing the way we look at science and medicine

__Doing Science + Culture__ is a groundbreaking book on the cultural study of science, technology and medicine. Outstanding contributors including life and physical scientists, anthropologists, sociologists, literature/communication scholars and historians of science who focus on the analysis of science and scientific discourses within culture: what it means to "do" science. Introduction : Researching Researchers / Roddey Reid And Sharon Traweek -- Faultlines / Sharon Traweek -- Postcolonial Science, Big Science, And Landscape / Itty Abraham -- Transnational Genomics : Transgressing The Boundary Between The Modern/west And The Premodern/east / Joan H. Fujimura -- Wonder Woman And Her Disciplinary Powers : The Queer Intersection Of Scientific Authority And Mass Culture / Molly Rhodes -- Researcher Or Smoker? : Or, When The Other Isn't Other Enough In Studying Across Tobacco Control / Roddey Reid -- The Ecstasy Of Miscommunication : Cyberpsychiatry And Mental Dis-ease / Jackie Orr -- The Rationality Of Mania / Emily Martin -- Mainstreaming Feminist Critiques Into The Biology Curriculum / Scott F. Gilbert With Collaboration From The Biology And Gender Study Group -- Reconceiving Scientific Literacy As Agential Literacy : Or, Learning How To Intra-act Responsibly Within The World / Karen Barad -- Engineering Cultural Studies : The Postdisciplinary Adventures Of Mindplayers, Fools, And Others / Anne Balsamo -- Calling The Future(s) With Ethnographic And Historiographic Legacy Disciplines : Sts @ The Turn 000.mit.edu / Michael M.j. Fischer. Edited By Roddey Reid And Sharon Traweek. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Doing Science + Culture is a groundbreaking book on the cultural study of science, technology, and medicine. Outstanding contributors including life and physical scientists, anthropologists, sociologists, literature/communication scholars, and historians of science focus on the analysis of science and scientific discourses within culture: what it means to "do" science.The essays are organized into three broad topics: transnational science and globalization; emerging subjects and subjectivities (of research and researchers); and postdisciplinary pedagogies and curricula (the institutional settings of classroom, laboratory, department, and academic division). Doing Science + Culture is a collection of work in the cultural study of science, technology, and medicine. The contributors include anthropologists, sociologists, literature/communication scholars, and historians of science who focus on the analysis of science and scientific discourses within culture, rather than 'doing' science. [from publisher's advertisement] About 125 years ago west European intellectual debates, modes of argument, and classifications of knowledge began to circulate globally through the new research universities that were established on the European model in most of their then current and former colonies, as well as in some countries eager to emulate the powerful Europeans.