The Right Tools for the Job : : At Work in Twentieth-Century Life Sciences /

The Right Tools for the Job : : At Work in Twentieth-Century Life Sciences / / ed. by Adele E. Clarke, Joan H. Fujimura.

This volume examines scientific practice through studies of research tools in an array of twentieth-century life sciences. The contributors draw upon and extend the multidisciplinary perspectives in current science studies to understand the processes through which scientific researchers constructed...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
MitwirkendeR:
Cambrosio, Alberto,
Clark, Adele E.,
Fausto-Sterling, Anne,
Fujimura, Joan H.,
Gossel, Patricia Peck,
Griesemer, James R.,
Haila, Yrjö,
Holmes, Frederic L.,
Jordan, Kathleen,
Keating, Peter,
Kimmelman, Barbara A.,
Lynch, Michael,
Mackenzie, Michael,
Mitman, Gregg,
Star, Susan Leigh,
Taylor, Peter J.,
HerausgeberIn:
Clarke, Adele E.,
Fujimura, Joan H.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1992
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 149
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Physical Description:1 online resource (378 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • PART I. INTRODUCTION
  • 1. What Tools? Which Jobs? Why Right?
  • PART II. CO-CONSTRUCTING TOOLS, JOBS, AND RIGHTNESS
  • 2. The Role of Instruments in the Generative Analysis of Science
  • 3. The Sociology of a Genetic Engineering Technique: Ritual and Rationality in the Performance of the "Plasmid Prep"
  • 4. Re/constructing Socioecologies: System Dynamics Modeling of Nomadic Pastoralists in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • PART III. DISCIPLINING THE TOOLS
  • 5. Manometers, Tissue Slices, and Intermediary Metabolism
  • 6. Whatever Happened to Planarial C. M. Child and the Physiology of Inheritance
  • 7. Organisms and Interests in Scientific Research: R. A. Emerson's Claims for the Unique Contributions of Agricultural Genetics
  • 8. Measuring Nature: Quantitative Data in Field Biology
  • PART IV. CHANGING CONSTRUCTIONS OF TOOLS, JOBS, AND RIGHTNESS
  • 9. Craft vs. Commodity, Mess vs. Transcendence: How the Right Tool Became the Wrong One in the Case of Taxidermy and Natural History
  • 10. A Need for Standard Methods: The Case of American Bacteriology
  • 11. The Tools of the Discipline: Standards, Models, and Measures in the Affinity/Avidity Controversy in Immunology
  • INDEX

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