Never Pure Historical Studies of Science as If It Was Produced by People with Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture, and Society, and Struggling for Credibility and Authority

Name: Never Pure Historical Studies of Science as If It Was Produced by People with Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture, and Society, and Struggling for Credibility and Authority
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ISBN: 9780801894213

ISBN-10: 0801894212

ISBN-13: 9780801894213

Edition: 2010

Authors: Steven Shapin

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Steven Shapin argues that science, for all its immense authority and power, is and always has been a human endeavor, subject to human capacities and limits. Put simply, science has never been pure. To be human is to err, and we understand science better when we recognize it as the laborious achievement of fallible, imperfect, and historically situated human beings.Shapin's essays collected here include reflections on the historical relationships between science and common sense, between science and modernity, and between science and the moral order. They explore the relevance of physical and social settings in the making of scientific knowledge, the methods appropriate to understanding…

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List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 6/1/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 568
Size: 6.22" wide x 9.13" long x 1.46" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English



Preface



Lowering the Tone in the History of Science: A Noble Calling



Methods and Maxims



Cordelia's Love: Credibility and the Social, Studies of Science



How to Be Antiscientific



Science and Prejudice in Historical Perspective



Places and Practices



The House of Experiment in Seventeenth-century England



Pump and Circumstance: Robert Boyle's Literary Technology



The Scientific Person



"The Mind Is Its Own Place": Science and Solitude in Seventeenth-century England



"A Scholar and a Gentleman": The Problematic Identity of the Scientific Practitioner in Seventeenth-century England



Who Was Robert Hooke?



Who Is the Industrial Scientist? Commentary from Academic Sociology and from the Shop Floor in the United States, ca. 1900-ca. 1970



The Body of Knowledge and the Knowledge of Body



The Philosopher and the Chicken: On the Dietetics of Disembodied Knowledge



How to Eat Like a Gentleman: Dietetics and Ethics in Early Modern England



The World of Science and the World of Common Sense



Trusting George Cheyne: Scientific Expertise, Common Sense, and Moral Authority in Early Eighteenth-century Dietetic Medicine



Proverbial Economies: How an Understanding of Some Linguistic and Social Features of Common Sense Can Throw Light on More Prestigious Bodies of Knowledge, Science for Example



Descartes the Doctor: Rationalism and Its Therapies



Science and Modernity



Science and the Modern World


Notes


Index