Complexities - Social Studies of Knowledge Practices

"Extremely timely, important, and well-defined, this book is precisely on target in focusing on heterogeneous studies that treat knowledge as local. The types of science and technology discussed are diverse and well-balanced."--David Stump, coeditor of "The Disunity of Science: Boundaries, Contests, and Power"

List of contents

Complexities: An Introduction / Annemarie Mol and John Law

Romantic and Baroque Conceptions of Complex Wholes in the Sciences / Chunglin Kwa

Which Road to Follow? The Moral Complexity of an “Equipped” Humanity / Laurent Thevenot

On Space and Depth / Marilyn Strathern

On Hidden Heterogeneities: Complexity, Formalism, and Aircraft Design / John Law

In the Middle of the Network / Andrew Barry

When Elephants Stand for Competing Philosophies of Nature: Amboseli National Park, Kenya / Charis Thompson

Writing and (Re)writing Devices as Tools for Managing Complexity / Michel Callon

Cutting Surgeons, Walking Patients: Some Complexities Involved in Comparing / Annemarie Mol

The Disposal of Fear: Childhood, Trauma, and Complexity / Nick Lee and Steven D. Brown

Contributors

Index

About the author

John Law and Annemarie Mol, eds.

Summary

Asks what is meant by complexity and how it might be handled within knowledge practices without generating a chaos of further complexities.

Product details

• Authors: Law, John Law
• Assisted by: Annemarie Mol (Editor), John Law (Editor), John Law (Editor), Annemarie Mol (Editor)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.06.2002
• EAN: 9780822328315
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2831-5
• No. of pages: 304
• Weight: 771 g
• Illustrations: 4 b&w photos, 2 tables, 9 figures
• Series: Constitutional Conflicts; Science and Cultural Theory; Constitutional Conflicts; Science and Cultural Theory
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Interdisziplinäre Studien