Andrew (Hrsg.) Pickering

Science as Practice and Culture

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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 field of resources that practice operates in and on. Andrew Pickering has invited leading historians, philosophers, sociologists, and anthropologists of science to prepare original essays for this volume. The essays range over the physical and biological sciences and mathematics, and are divided into two parts. In part I, the contributors map out a… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-226-66801-7
EAN: 9780226668017
Produktnummer: 1568612
Verlag: The University of Chicago Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1992
Seitenangabe: 482 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.4 cm x D2.5 cm 756 g
Auflage: 2nd ed.
Gewicht: 756
Sonstiges: Undergraduate

Über den Autor

Andrew Pickering is professor in the Department of Sociology and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Constructing Quarks: A Sociological History of Particle Physics, also published by the University of Chicago Press.