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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Table of Contents:
- 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