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| Acknowledgements | |
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| A note to the reader | |
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| Ways of knowing: an introduction | |
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| An outline of the method | |
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| Missions for this book | |
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| An outline of the story | |
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| World-readings: the meanings of nature and of science | |
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| Variety in modern Western medicine | |
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| Meanings and readings | |
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| Renaissance cosmologies | |
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| Disenchantment? | |
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| Natural theology and natural diseases | |
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| Revolution, respectability and evolution | |
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| Science, progress and the State | |
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| Modernist human-natures | |
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| Nature and culture | |
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| Natural history | |
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| 'Historia' and representation | |
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| New worlds, new properties and new creators | |
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| Natures for pedigree people | |
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| Natural empires | |
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| Popular natural history | |
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| Displays of technology, new and old | |
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| 'Natural history' now | |
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| Analysis and the rationalisation of production | |
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| Analysis from the ancient world | |
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| Analytical aspirations | |
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| The elements of chemistry | |
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| Analysis for engineers | |
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| Analysis and 'physics' | |
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| Rationalised production | |
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| Rationalisation and identities | |
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| Production and analytical sciences | |
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| The elements of bodies, earth and society | |
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| Medical analysis: corpse and patient | |
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| Analysing plants and animals | |
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| Sciences of the earth | |
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| Analysing the social | |
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| Reflections on the institutions of analysis | |
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| Experimentalism and invention | |
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| Meanings of experiment | |
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| Experimental histories | |
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| Experimentation and the age of analysis | |
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| Synthesis in chemistry | |
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| Experimentation in biomedical sciences | |
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| Experimentation in physical sciences | |
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| On clouds, dust and control | |
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| Experimentalism and hierarchies of knowledge | |
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| Experiment and invention | |
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| Industries, universities and the technoscientific complexes | |
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| Analysis and established technologies | |
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| Electrical analysis and synthesis | |
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| Electrotechnics and industrial laboratories | |
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| Dyestuffs and pharmaceuticals | |
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| Remedies for/from microbes | |
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| Science and industry in and after the First World War | |
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| Technosciences in and after the Second World War | |
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| Coda | |
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| Technoscience and public understandings: the British case c.2000 | |
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| 'No one understands us' | |
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| Science back in business | |
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| The study of 'public understanding of science' | |
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| The politics of technoscience | |
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| Understanding public science | |
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| Analysis and the bounds of 'science' | |
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| Publics and natural histories | |
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| Public understandings and world-readings | |
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| Science, values and history | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |