Cultural Boundaries of Science Credibility on the Line

Name: Cultural Boundaries of Science Credibility on the Line
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ISBN: 9780226292625

ISBN-10: 0226292622

ISBN-13: 9780226292625

Edition: 1998

Authors: Thomas F. Gieryn

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Why is science so credible? Usual answers center on scientists' objective methods or their powerful instruments. In his new book, Thomas Gieryn argues that a better explanation for the cultural authority of science lies downstream, when scientific claims leave laboratories and enter courtrooms, boardrooms, and living rooms. On such occasions, we use "maps" to decide who to believe--cultural maps demarcating "science" from pseudoscience, ideology, faith, or nonsense. Gieryn looks at episodes of boundary-work: Was phrenology good science? How about cold fusion? Is social science really scientific? Is organic farming? After centuries of disputes like these, Gieryn finds no stable criteria…

Book details

List price: $44.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 1/15/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 412
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.02" long x 0.97" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Preface


Introduction Contesting Credibility Cartographically



John Tyndall's Double Boundary-Work: Science, Religion, and Mechanics in Victorian England



The U.S. Congress Demarcates Natural Science and Social Science (Twice)



May the Best Science Win: Competition for the Chair of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh, 1836



The (Cold) Fusion of Science, Mass Media, and Politics



Hybridizing Credibilities: Albert and Gabrielle Howard Compost Organic Waste, Science, and the Rest of Society Epilogue Home to Roost "Science Wars" as Boundary-Work


Bibliography of Secondary Works


Index