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Culturing bioscience / Udo Krautwurst.
LIBRA QH333 .K73 2014 PO 420895
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Krautwurst, Udo R. (Udo Rainer), 1959- author.
- Series:
- Teaching culture
- Teaching culture: UTP ethnographies for the classroom
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Life sciences--Social aspects--Case studies.
- Life sciences.
- Life sciences--Political aspects--Case studies.
- Life sciences--Economic aspects--Case studies.
- Life sciences--Government policy--Case studies.
- Government policy.
- Life sciences--Political aspects.
- Life sciences--Social aspects.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xliv, 179 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- North York, Ontario, Canada : University of Toronto Press, [2014]
- Summary:
- "Charting the rise and fall of an experimental biomedical facility at a North American university, Culturing Bioscience offers a fascinating glimpse into scientific culture and the social and political context in which that culture operates. Krautwurst nests the discussion of scientific culture within a series of levels from the lab to the global political economy. In the process he explores a number of topics, including: the social impact of technology; researchers' relationships with sophisticated equipment; what scientists actually do in a laboratory; what role science plays in the contemporary university; and the way bioscience interacts with local, regional, and global governments. The result is a rich case study that illustrates a host of contemporary issues in the social study of science."-- Publishers description.
- Contents:
- Intralude
- A theoretical and methodological intralude
- Intra-action and doing science : experiments, people, and technology
- Re-visioning scientific practice through the ACCBR
- What can you do in, to, and with a university?
- Science and/as development
- Globalizing bioscience and/as biocapital
- Concluding: Lessons from an open concept lab
- Appendix 1: A parable on changing assumptions, or, How to approximate agential realism
- Appendix 2: Fieldwork in the academy, and the ethics of ethics.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-167) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lachs-Adler Family Endowed Fund for Collection Development.
- Other Format:
- Krautwurst, Udo R. (Udo Rainer), 1959- Culturing bioscience.
- ISBN:
- 9781442604629
- 144260462X
- 9781442608139
- 1442608137
- OCLC:
- 876425156
- Publisher Number:
- 99967507842
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