Biographies of Scientific Objects

Name: Biographies of Scientific Objects
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ISBN: 9780226136721

ISBN-10: 0226136728

ISBN-13: 9780226136721

Edition: 2000

Authors: Lorraine Daston

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This text is about how whole domains of phenomena - dreams, atoms, monsters, culture, society, mortality, centers of gravity, tuberculosis - come into being and sometimes pass away as objects of scientific study.

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/15/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Lorraine Daston is director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and honorary professor at the Humboldt-Universitï¿½t, Berlin.Gregg Mitman is William Coleman Professor of the History of Science and professor of medical history and science and technology studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.



Preface


Introduction: The Coming into Being of Scientific Objects




Preternatural Philosophy




Mathematical Entities in Scientific Discourse: Paulus Guldin and His Dissertatio De Motu Terrae




Dreams and Self-consciousness: Mapping the Mind in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries




Mutations of the Self in Old Regime and Postrevolutionary France: from Ame to Moi to Le Moi




The Coming into Being and Passing Away of Value Theories in Economics (1776-1976)




"An Entirely New Object of Consciousness, of Volition, of Thought": the Coming into Being and (Almost) Passing Away of "Society" as a Scientific Object




"Sentimental Pessimism" and Ethnographic Experience: Or, Why Culture is Not a Disappearing "Object"




How the Ether Spawned the Microworld




Life Insurance, Medical Testing, and the Management of Mortality




On the Partial Existence of Existing and Nonexisting Objects




Cytoplasmic Particles: the Trajectory of a Scientific Object



List of Contributors


Index