The Science Studies Reader

The Reader focuses on the practices of modern and contemporary science and technology located in different national and institutional settings, with some attention to non- Western contexts. By mapping some of the open questions and points of tension likely to occupy the field for years to come, the essays in the Reader cast fresh light on what "science" means at the end of the twentieth century. The Science Studies Reader Pulls Together The Foundational Essays In Science Studies By The Field's Key Scholars, Including The Cultural Study Of Science, Feminism And Science, The Relation Of Technology To Society And Humans. Agential Realism : Feminist Interventions In Understanding Scientific Practices (1998) / Karen Barad -- Aporias Of Scientific Authorship : Credit And Responsibility In Contemporay Biomedicine (1998) / Mario Biagioli -- The Specificity Of The Scientific Field And The Social Conditions Of The Progress Of Reason ( 1975, Abridged 1998) / Pierre Bourdieu -- Muscles And Engines : Indicator Diagrams And Helmholtz's Graphical Methods (1994, Abridged 1998) / Robert M. Brian, M. Norton Wise -- Some Elements Of Sociology And Translation : Domestication Of Scallops And The Fishermen Of The St. Brieuc Bay (1986, Abridged 1998) / Michel Callon -- Reading Science Studies Writing (1997, Abridged 1998 ) / Sande Cohen -- (cont.)the Tea Set : Tacit Knowledge And Scientific Networks (1974) / H.m Collins -- Styles Of Reasoning, Conceptual History, And The Emergence Of Psychiatry (1996, Abridged 1998) / Arnold I. Davidson -- Trading Zone : Coordinating Action And Belief (1997, Abridged 1998) / Peter Galison -- Making Up People (1998) / Ian Hacking -- Situated Knowledges : The Science Question In Feminism And The Privilege Of Partial Perspective (1998) / Donna J. Haraway -- On The Problem Of Chinese Science (1998) / Roger Hart -- In The Beginning As The Word : The Genetic Code And The Book Of Life ( 1998) / Lily E. Kay -- The Genre/ Science System : Or, Is Sex To Genre As Nature To Science? (1998) / Evelyn Fox Keller --moral Economy, Material Culture, And The Community In Drosophila Genetics (1998) / Robert E. Kohler -- Give Me A Laboratory And I Will Raise The World (1983, Abridged 1998) / Bruno Latour - One More Turn After The Social Turn... ( 1992, Abridged 1998) / Bruno Latour -- Was The Last Turn The Right Turn? : The Semiotic Turn And A. J. Greimas (1992) / Timothy Lenoir -- Science In Antiquity : The Greek And Chinese Cases And Their Relevance To The Problem Of Culture And Cognition (1996) / Geoffrey Lloyd -- (cont.)what Are We Thinking About When We Are Thinking About Computers ? ( 1995, Abridged 1998) / Sherry Turkle -- The Engendering Of Archaeology : Refiguring Feminist Science Studies (1997, Abridged 1998) / Alison Wylie -- Edited By Mario Biagioli ; In Consultation With Peter Galison ... [et Al.]. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. The Science Studies Readeris a landmark anthology of writing in the burgeoning new field of science studies. Society and the scientific community are today engaging more thoughtfully than ever before the question of what "scientific knowledge" might be. This collection of writings by some of the most prominent thinkers in the field speaks to the nature of science and knowledge across time, cultures, and genders. TheReaderfocuses on the practices of modern and contemporary science and technology located in different national and institutional settings, with some attention to non- Western contexts. Here are essays on the gender dimensions of science, the moral economies of scientific communities, imaging techniques, intellectual property, authorship, and many other current subjects. The collection presents science as crucially connected to issues within contemporary history, sociology, gender studies, anthropology, and cultural studies of science. By mapping some of the openquestions and points of tension likely to occupy the field for years to come, the essays in theReadercast fresh light on what "science" means at the end of the twentieth century The Science Studies Reader is a landmark anthology of writing in the burgeoning new field of science studies. Society and the scientific community are today engaging more thoughtfully than ever before the question of what "scientific knowledge" might be. This collection of writings by some of the most prominent thinkers in the field speaks to the nature of science and knowledge across time, cultures, and genders. This text pulls together the foundational essays in science studies by the field's key scholars, including the cultural study of science, feminism and science, the relation of technology to society and humans