| Description |
xiii, 329 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction -- 2. What Is a Laboratory? -- 3. Particle Physics and Negative Knowledge -- 4. Molecular Biology and Blind Variation -- 5. From Machines to Organisms: Detectors as Behavioral and Social Beings -- 6. From Organisms to Machines: Laboratories as Factories of Transgenics -- 7. HEP Experiments as Post-Traditional Communitarian Structures -- 8. The Multiple Ordering Frameworks of HEP Collaborations -- 9. The Dual Organization of Molecular Biology Laboratories -- 10. Toward an Understanding of Knowledge Societies: A Dialogue |
| Summary |
"By many accounts, contemporary western societies are becoming 'knowledge societies' that run on expert processes and expert systems epitomized by science and structured into all areas of social life. By looking at epistemic cultures in two sample cases, this book addresses pressing questions about how such processes work, what principles inform their cognitive and procedural orientations, and whether their organization, structures, and operations can be extended to other forms of social order."--back cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-319) and index |
| Subject |
Knowledge, Theory of.
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Science -- Philosophy.
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Science -- Social aspects.
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Scientists -- Interviews.
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| Genre/Form |
Interviews.
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| LC no. |
98030277 |
| ISBN |
9780674258945 |
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0674258932 (cloth) (alkaline paper) |
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9780674258938 (cloth) (alkaline paper) |
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0674258940 (paperback) (alkaline paper) |
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