Laboratory life : the construction of scientific facts / Bruno Latour, Steve Woolgar ; introduction by Jonas Salk ; with a new postscript and index by the authors.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Latour, Bruno.

Contributor:

Woolgar, Steve.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biology--Methodology.

Biology.

Biology--Research.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (513 pages).

Edition:

Course book.

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1986.

Language Note:

English.

Summary:

This highly original work presents laboratory science in a deliberately skeptical way: as an anthropological approach to the culture of the scientist. Drawing on recent work in literary criticism, the authors study how the social world of the laboratory produces papers and other "texts,"' and how the scientific vision of reality becomes that set of statements considered, for the time being, too expensive to change. The book is based on field work done by Bruno Latour in Roger Guillemin's laboratory at the Salk Institute and provides an important link between the sociology of modern sciences and laboratory studies in the history of science.

Contents:

Preface to second edition

Introduction

From order to disorder

An anthropologist visits the laboratory

The construction of a fact : the case of TRF(H)

The microprocessing of facts

Cycles of credit

The creation of order out of disorder

Postscript to second edition.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's website, viewed May 23, 2019).

Reprint. Originally published: Beverly Hills : Sage Publications, c1979. (Sage library of social research ; v. 80).

Includes bibliographic references and index.

ISBN:

9781299284210

1299284213

9781400820412

1400820413

OCLC:

845252071