Laboratory Life - The Construction of Scientific Facts (Paperback)

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This highly original work presents laboratory science in a deliberately skeptical way: as an anthropological approach to the culture of the scientist. Drawing on recent work in literary criticism, the authors study how the social world of the laboratory produces papers and other "texts,"' and how the scientific vision of reality becomes that set of statements considered, for the time being, too expensive to change. The book is based on field work done by Bruno Latour in Roger Guillemin's laboratory at the Salk Institute and provides an important link between the sociology of modern sciences and laboratory studies in the history of science.


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This highly original work presents laboratory science in a deliberately skeptical way: as an anthropological approach to the culture of the scientist. Drawing on recent work in literary criticism, the authors study how the social world of the laboratory produces papers and other "texts,"' and how the scientific vision of reality becomes that set of statements considered, for the time being, too expensive to change. The book is based on field work done by Bruno Latour in Roger Guillemin's laboratory at the Salk Institute and provides an important link between the sociology of modern sciences and laboratory studies in the history of science.

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Imprint

Princeton University Press

Country of origin

United States

Release date

September 1986

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Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days

First published

September 1986

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Dimensions

216 x 140 x 23mm (L x W x T)

Format

Paperback - Trade

Pages

296

ISBN-13

978-0-691-02832-3

Barcode

9780691028323

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LSN

0-691-02832-X



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