Epistemic Cultures : : How the Sciences Make Knowledge / / Karin Knorr Cetina.
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.
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022] ©1999 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) |
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Other title: | 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 |
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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. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780674039681 9783110442212 |
DOI: | 10.4159/9780674039681?locatt=mode:legacy |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Karin Knorr Cetina. |