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Charting the rise and fall of an experimental biomedical facility at a North American university,
Culturing Bioscience offers a fascinating glimpse into scientific culture and the social and political context in which that culture operates.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction Intraduction
A Beginning Is Always in the Middle of Something
Bioscience in an Out-of-the-Way Place: How It Got Started
The Organization of the Book: Magnifying Currents
Science Studies: A Brief Outline of Newtonian and Quantum Versions
Thirty Years of Bioscience in Action
A Theoretical and Methodological Intralude
An Indeterminate List of Agential Realist Concepts
Thinking through Methods, Thinking Methods through
1. Intra-Action and Doing Science:
Experiments, People, and Technology
Investigating Neuroscience
2. Re-Visioning Scientific Practice through the ACCBR
A Vision: From Cooperation to Collaboration
Structure and Practice, or, Space. . . . the Final Frontier?
The Near Future of the ACCBR
3. What Can You Do in, to, and with a University?
Anthropology and the Call to "Study up"
The University in Transformation
4. Science and/as Development
Science and/as Science Policy:
The Triple Helix, Modes 1 and 2, and Business Clusters
Culturing Bioscience on Prince Edward Island
5. Globalizing Bioscience and/as Biocapital
Global Biocapital and/as Community
Bioscience, Biocapital, and Business Clusters: Intellectual Property on PEI
Concluding:
Lessons from an Open Concept Lab
Appendix 1:
A Parable on Changing Assumptions, or, How to Approximate Agential Realism
Appendix 2:
Fieldwork in the Academy, and the Ethics of Ethics
References
Index
About the author
By Udo Krautwurst
Summary
Charting the rise and fall of an experimental biomedical facility at a North American university, Culturing Bioscience offers a fascinating glimpse into scientific culture and the social and political context in which that culture operates.
