Doing Science + Culture

Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-415-92111-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 664 g

Doing Science + Culture is a groundbreaking book on the cultural study of science, technology and medicine. Outstanding contributors including life and physical scientists, anthropologists, sociologists, literature/communication scholars and historians of science who focus on the analysis of science and scientific discourses within culture: what it means to "do" science.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reid, Roddey

Traweek, Sharon

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wissenssoziologie, Wissenschaftssoziologie, Techniksoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technologie: Soziale & Ethische Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments. Introduction: Researching Researchers. 1/Transnational Science and Globalization. Faultlines. Postcolonial Science, Big Science, and Landscape. Transnational Genomics. 2/Emerging Subjcects. Wonder Woman and Her Disciplinary Powers. Researcher or Smoker? The Ecstasy of Miscommunication. The Rationality of Mania. 3/Postdisciplinary Pedagogies and Programs. Mainstreaming Feminist Critiques into the Biology Curriculum. Reconceiving Scientific Literacy as Agential Literacy. Engineering Cultural Studies. Calling the Future(s) with Ethnographic and Historiographic Legacy Disciplines. Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Roddey Reid is Associate Professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. Sharon Traweek is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles and author of Beamtimes and Lifetimes: The World of High Energy Physicists (1992).