Never pure : historical studies of science as if it was produced by people with bodies, situated in time, space, culture and society, and struggling for credibility and authority / Steven Shapin.
Pubblicazione:
Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins university press, c2010.
Descrizione fisica:
IX, 552 p. ; 24 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Preface. 1. Lowering the tone in the history of science: a noble calling. Pt. 1. Methods and maxims: 2. Cordelia's love: credibility and the social studies of science 3. How to be antiscientific 4. Science and prejudice in historical perspective. Pt. 2. Places and practices: 5. The house of experiment in seventeenth century England 6. Pump and circumstance: Robert Boyle's literary technology. Pt. 3. The scientific person: 7. The mind is its own place: science and solitude in seventeenth century England 8. A scholar and a gentleman: the problematic identity of the scientific practitioner in seventeenth century England 9. Who was Robert Hooke? 10. Who is the industrial scientist? Commentary from academic sociology and from the shop floor in the United States (ca. 1900-ca. 1970). Pt. 4. The body of knowledge and the knowledge of body: 11. The philosopher and the chicken: on the dietetics of disembodied knowledge 12. How to eat like a gentleman: dietetics and ethics in early modern England. Pt. 5. The world of science and the world of common sense: 13. Trusting George Cheyne: scientific expertise, common sense and moral authority in early eighteenth century dietetic medicine 14. Proverbial economies: how an understanding of some linguistic and social features of common sense can throw light on more prestigious bodies of knowledge, science for example 15. Descartes the doctor: rationalism and its therapies. Pt. 6. Science and modernity: 16. Science and the modern world. Notes. Index
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