Laboratory Life - Construction of Scientific Facts

Zusatztext "Eight years after Laboratory Life first came out, it is still one of my favourite books on the social studies of science. . . . [F]or those in the business of reflecting on the nature of science who have not yet read Laboratory Life , here is a good opportunity to catch up and do so." ---Ditta Bartels, Metascience Informationen zum Autor B. Latour & S. WoolgarIntroduction by Jonas Salk Klappentext The pioneering 'laboratory study' in the sociology of scientific knowledge... The first and, deservedly, the most influential book-length account of day-to-day work in a single laboratory setting. ISIS Zusammenfassung Presents laboratory science in a deliberately skeptical way: as an anthropological approach to the culture of the scientist. This book provides an important link between the sociology of modern sciences and laboratory studies in the history of science.

Product details

• Authors: B. Latour, Bruno Latour, Latour Bruno, Steve Woolgar, Woolgar Steve
• Assisted by: Jonas Salk (Editor), Salk Jonas (Editor)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.1992
• EAN: 9780691028323
• ISBN: 978-0-691-02832-3
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 214 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Science: general issues, SCIENCE / General, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General