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Epistemic cultures : how the sciences make knowledge / Karin Knorr Cetina.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Knorr-Cetina, K. (Karin), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Knowledge, Theory of.
- Science--Philosophy.
- Science.
- Science--Social aspects.
- Scientists--Interviews.
- Scientists.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 329 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, [1999]
- Summary:
- The first ethnographic study to systematically compare two different scientific laboratory cultures--that of high-energy physics and molecular biology--in order to examine how epistemic cultures form distinct bases for knowledge.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- A Note on Transcription
- 1 Introduction
- 2 What Is a Laboratory?
- 3 Particle Physics and Negative Knowledge
- 4 Molecular Biology and Blind Variation
- 5 From Machines to Organisms: Detectors as Behavioral and Social Beings
- 6 From Organisms to Machines: Laboratories as Factories of Transgenics
- 7 HEP Experiments as Post-Traditional Communitarian Structures
- 8 The Multiple Ordering Frameworks of HEP Collaborations
- 9 The Dual Organization of Molecular Biology Laboratories
- 10 Toward an Understanding of Knowledge Societies: A Dialogue
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-319) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674039681
- 0674039688
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