Science in Action How to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society

Name: Science in Action How to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society
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ISBN: 9780674792913

ISBN-10: 0674792912

ISBN-13: 9780674792913

Edition: 1987 (Reprint)

Authors: Bruno Latour

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Science and technology have immense authority and influence in our society, yet their working remains little understood. The conventional perception of science in Western societies has been modified in recent years by the work of philosophers, sociologists and historians of science. In this book Bruno Latour brings together these different approaches to provide a lively and challenging analysis of science, demonstrating how social context and technical content are both essential to a proper understanding of scientific activity. Emphasizing that science can only be understood through its practice, the author examines science and technology in action: the role of scientific literature, the…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 1987
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/15/1988
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.94" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

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



Acknowledgements


Introduction


Opening Pandora's Black Box



From Wearer to Stronger Rhetoric



Literature



Controversies



When controversies flare up The literature becomes technical



Writing texts that withstand The Assaults of a hostile environment Conclusion: Numbers, more numbers



Laboratories



From texts to things: A showdown



Building up counter-laboratories



Appealing (to) nature



From Wear Points to Strongholds



Machines Introduction: The quandary of The fact-builder



Translating interests



Keeping The interested groups in line



The model of diffusion versus The model of translation



Insiders Out



Interesting Others in The laboratories



Counting Allies and resources



From Short to Longer Networks



Tribunals of Reason



The trials of rationality



Sociologics



Who needs hard facts?



Centres of calculation Prologue: The domestication of The savage mind



Action At a distance



Centres of calculation



Metrologies