Pandora's Hope Essays on the Reality of Science Studies

Name: Pandora's Hope Essays on the Reality of Science Studies
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ISBN: 9780674653368

ISBN-10: 067465336X

ISBN-13: 9780674653368

Edition: 1999

Authors: Bruno Latour

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Using case studies of scientists in the Amazon analysing soil and studying the fermentation of lactic acid, the author shows the myriad steps by which events in the material world are transformed into items of scientific knowledge.

Book details

List price: $36.50
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 6/30/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Bruno Latour is Professor and Vice-President for Research at the Sciences Po, Paris.




"Do You Believe in Reality?": News from the Trenches of the Science Wars



Circulating Reference: Sampling the Soil in the Amazon Forest



Science's Blood Flow: An Example from Joliot's Scientific Intelligence



From Fabrication to Reality: Pasteur and His Lactic Acid Ferment



The Historicity of Things: Where Were Microbes before Pasteur?



A Collective of Humans and Nonhumans: Following Daedalus's Labyrinth



The Invention of the Science Wars: The Settlement of Socrates and Callicles



A Politics Freed from Science: The Body Cosmopolitic



The Slight Surprise of Action: Facts, Fetishes, Factishes


Conclusion: What Contrivance Will Free Pandora's Hope?


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