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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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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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