ISBN:
9780822373094
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (425 pages)
Parallel Title:
Print version Chemla, Karine Cultures without Culturalism : The Making of Scientific Knowledge
DDC:
303.483
Keywords:
Science - Social aspects
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Abstract:
This volume models a new path where historicized and cultural accounts of scientific practice retain their specificity and complexity without falling into the traps of cultural essentialism, examining issues that range from the history of quadratic equations in China to the studying of employment discrimination in the social sciences
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Stating the Problem: Cultures without Culturalism -- 1. On Invoking "Culture" in the Analysis of Behavior in Financial Markets -- 2. Cultural Difference and Sameness: Historiographic Reflections on Histories of Physics in Modern Japan -- 3. The Cultural Politics of an African AIDS Vaccine: The Vanhivax Controversy in Cameroon, 2001-2011 -- 4. Worrying about Essentialism: From Feminist Theory to Epistemological Cultures -- Part II. Distinguishing the Many Dimensions of Encultured Practice -- 5. Hybrid Devices: Embodiments of Culture in Biomedical Engineering -- 6. Glass Ceilings and Sticky Floors: Drawing New Ontologies -- 7. Modes of Exchange: The Cultures and Politics of Public Demonstrations -- 8. Styles in Mathematical Practice -- Part III. The Making of Scientific Cultures -- 9. Historicizing Culture: A Revaluation of Early Modern Science and Culture -- 10. From Quarry to Paper: Cuvier's Three Epistemological Cultures -- 11. Cultures of Experimentation -- 12. The People's War against Earthquakes: Cultures of Mass Science in Mao's China -- Part IV. What is at Stake? -- 13. E Uno Plures? Unity and Diversity in Galois Theory, 1832-1900 -- 14. Changing Mathematical Cultures, Conceptual History, and the Circulation of Knowledge: A Case Study Based on Mathematical Sources from Ancient China -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
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