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Science as practice and culture / edited by Andrew Pickering

Pickering, Andrew [1948-]

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1992

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (viii, 474 pages) : Illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and index

978-0-226-66820-8 ; 0-226-66820-7 ; 0-226-66800-2

CC 3200 MS 6950 TB 6400

 

Wissenschaftsforschung  Wissenschaftssoziologie  Wissenschaftstheorie 

 

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.