Culturing Bioscience: A Case Study in the Anthropology of Science

Udo Krautwurst

Published by University of Toronto Press 2014

Culturing Bioscience

A Case Study in the Anthropology of Science

Udo Krautwurst

In the series Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442604636

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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.

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Krautwurst Udo :

Udo Krautwurst is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Prince Edward Island. He is a social theorist with a particular interest in the anthropology of representation, practice, and the historical confrontations between forms of knowledge production and technology.

Reviews

Sergio Sismondo, Queen's University:
A witty tour of an innovative but marginalized effort in biomedical science, diffracted through the language of agential realism. Applying an ever-widening focus, from the lab bench and local institutional jockeying to efforts at economic development and international patent sales, Krautwurst uses this case study as a concise guide to contemporary issues in the anthropology of science.

Kim Fortun, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute:
Culturing Bioscience draws readers into thinking about how science is practiced, organized, and invested in by different kinds of actors, and introduces a wealth of concepts and authors (from Evelyn Fox Keller, Sharon Traweek, and Annemarie Mol to Hannah Landecker), all framed by Karen Barad's conception of agential realism. The text moves from analyzing lab practices and knowledge forms (including embodied, tacit knowledge forms), to the organization and dynamics of an innovatively designed biomedical research center, and on to the forces shaping the university and research writ large before ending with an exploration of science-as-means-of-development. A great text for undergraduate teaching.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Intraduction Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
A Theoretical and Methodological Intralude Publicly Available Download PDF	xxxi
Chapter 1. Intra-Action and Doing Science: Experiments, People, and Technology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 2. Re-Visioning Scientific Practice through the ACCBR Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
Chapter 3. What Can You Do in, to, and with a University? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
Chapter 4. Science and/as Development Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
Chapter 5. Globalizing Bioscience and/as Biocapital Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Concluding: Lessons from an Open Concept Lab Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Appendix 1. A Parable on Changing Assumptions, or, How to Approximate Agential Realism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Appendix 2. Fieldwork in the Academy, and the Ethics of Ethics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 224
Keywords: Coursebook

eBook

Published: August 27, 2014
ISBN: 9781442604636