Laboratory life [ the construction of scientific facts

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,"an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Latour, Bruno (Author), Woolgar, Steve (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press , c1986
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Online Access:http://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/iviewer/PUPB0001847/userkey/pc/1/0/read.html
Table of Contents:
  • 1. From order to disorder
  • 2. An anthropologist visits the laboratory
  • 3. The construction of a fact: the case of TRF(H)
  • 4. The microprocessing of facts
  • 5. Cycles of credit
  • 6. The creation of order out of disorder