Science as practice and culture /
Science as Practice and Culture explores one of the newest and most controversial developments within the rapidly changing field of science studies: the move toward studying scientific practice--the work of doing science--and the associated move toward studying scientific culture, understood as the...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
1992.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | Science as Practice and Culture explores one of the newest and most controversial developments within the rapidly changing field of science studies: the move toward studying scientific practice--the work of doing science--and the associated move toward studying scientific culture, understood as the field of resources that practice operates in and on. Andrew Pickering has invited leading historians, philosophers, sociologists, and anthropologists of science to prepare original essays for this volume. The essays range over the physical and biological sciences and mathematics, and are divided into. |
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| Item Description: | EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 474 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226668208 0226668207 |
