Culturing Bioscience : : A Case Study in the Anthropology of Science / / Udo Krautwurst.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Krautwurst, Udo,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)

Charting the rise and fall of an experimental biomedical facility at a North American university, Culturing Bioscience offers a fascinating glimpse into scientific culture and the social and political context in which that culture operates. Krautwurst nests the discussion of scientific culture within a series of levels from the lab to the global political economy. In the process he explores a number of topics, including: the social impact of technology; researchers' relationships with sophisticated equipment; what scientists actually do in a laboratory; what role science plays in the contemporary university; and the way bioscience interacts with local, regional, and global governments. The result is a rich case study that illustrates a host of contemporary issues in the social study of science.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Intraduction -- A Theoretical and Methodological Intralude -- Chapter 1. Intra-Action and Doing Science: Experiments, People, and Technology -- Chapter 2. Re-Visioning Scientific Practice through the ACCBR -- Chapter 3. What Can You Do in, to, and with a University? -- Chapter 4. Science and/as Development -- Chapter 5. Globalizing Bioscience and/as Biocapital -- Concluding: Lessons from an Open Concept Lab -- Appendix 1. A Parable on Changing Assumptions, or, How to Approximate Agential Realism -- Appendix 2. Fieldwork in the Academy, and the Ethics of Ethics -- References -- Index