Laboratory Life : : The Construction of Scientific Facts / / Steve Woolgar, Bruno Latour; ed. by Jonas Salk.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Latour, Bruno,; Woolgar, Steve,
• HerausgeberIn: Salk, Jonas,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013]; ©1987
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)

This highly original work presents laboratory science in a deliberately skeptical way: as an anthropological approach to the culture of the scientist. Drawing on recent work in literary criticism, the authors study how the social world of the laboratory produces papers and other "texts,"' and how the scientific vision of reality becomes that set of statements considered, for the time being, too expensive to change. The book is based on field work done by Bruno Latour in Roger Guillemin's laboratory at the Salk Institute and provides an important link between the sociology of modern sciences and laboratory studies in the history of science.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1. FROM ORDER TO DISORDER -- Chapter 2. AN ANTHROPOLOGIST VISITS THE LABORATORY -- Chapter 3. THE CONSTRUCTION OF A FACT: THE CASE OF TRF(H) -- Chapter 4. THE MICROPROCESSING OF FACTS -- Chapter 5. CYCLES OF CREDIT -- Chapter 6. THE CREATION OF ORDER OUT OF DISORDER -- REFERENCES -- POSTSCRIPT TO SECOND EDITION (1986) -- ADDITIONAL REFERENCES -- INDEX