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 Readercast fresh light on what "science" means at the end of the twentieth century.
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There is no comparable anthology in which so many [science studies classics] can be accessed so conveniently... It is easy to predict a bright future for the collection as assigned reading for seminars in interdisciplinary science studies, and indeed I have already put it to use successfully in just that way. -- Jan Golinsky, Isis
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Collecting the founding articles of science studies all in one place, for the first time...The Science Studies Reader is essential reading for anyone interested in science and technolgy. There is simply nothing else like it. -- Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, June 2001
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Collecting the founding articles of science studies all in one place, for the first time...The Science Studies Reader is essential reading for anyone interested in science and technolgy. There is simply nothing else like it. -- Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, June 2001
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Mario Biagioli is Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University and the author of Galileo Courtier (1993).
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White Elephant or Sacred Cow?: Take Your Pick,
By Don Nostrand (Oxford, England) - See all my reviews
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This is the book that has gathered together all the most annoying people in science studies -- especially the ones who flog the dead horse of 'practise'without considering the larger social and political contexts that have made the Science Wars such a hot issue. I would advise so-called Science Warriors looking for an easy target to look no further than this arboreal sacrifice. Everyone else: check out David Hess's introduction to science studies for something more reasonable and Steve Fuller's book on Kuhn for something really challenging.
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The other review is a hoax,
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The other review is a hoax! Lady Bracknell is a character in a play by Oscar Wilde. You dummies!
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Hoax? Hardly!,
By Fletcher Toothband (Liverpool, UK) - See all my reviews
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Actually, I just read Biagioli's collection, and the review below does seem most accurate. Some of the puzzles were quite complex; and the texture of the paper was outstanding. Bravo Lady Bracknell. A review worth reading! And bravo Mario. Your children should be proud.
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This story from a recent essay of mine might be read as the vindication of a realist account of scientific theories: the final scene in a great tale of discovery that, by common tellings, extends from Democritus' imaginings to its very recent imagings under the objective eye of a scanning tunneling microscope. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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This story from a recent essay of mine might be read as the vindication of a realist account of scientific theories: the final scene in a great tale of discovery that, by common tellings, extends from Democritus' imaginings to its very recent imagings under the objective eye of a scanning tunneling microscope. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
established scientific order, double discharge laser, honorific authorship, aperspectival objectivity, agential realism, agential reality, literary language game, anomalous suspension, science studies practitioners, official sociology, larvae anchor, scientific authorship, stabilization gradient, feminist science studies, psychiatric style, constrained constructivism, fly group, scientific credit, reverse salients, ontological objectivity, semiotic turn, semiotic square, mechanical objectivity, particle physics community, radical inventions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Royal Society, University of Chicago Press, United States, British Association, Cambridge University Press, University of California, Harvard University Press, Princeton University Press, Bruno Latour, Robert Boyle, Steven Shapin, John Law, Simon Schaffer, Cambridge University Library, Oxford University Press, Michel Foucault, Peter Galison, Brieuc Bay, National Geographic, Robert Hooke, Kegan Paul, Arundel House, Gresham College, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology New!
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