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Science and Cultural Theory Series

18 primary works • 18 total works
Among the most exciting and significant new developments in contemporary thought is the recognition of issues that span the chasm traditionally separating studies in the humanities and social sciences from those in the natural sciences. Innovative responses to such issues are reflected in the emergence of a number of distinctly interdisciplinary fi…
Aircraft Stories: Decentering the Object in Technoscience
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3.70 · 23 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2002 · 9 editions
In Aircraft Stories noted sociologist of technosci…

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    Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China: Plurality and Synthesis
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    4.47     · 15 Ratings · published 2002 · 6 editions
    As a traditional healing art that has established …

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    Complexities: Social Studies of Knowledge Practices
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    4.00     · 24 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2002 · 11 editions
    Although much recent social science and humanities…

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    Emergence and Embodiment: New Essays on Second-Order Systems Theory
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    4.04     · 28 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2009 · 5 editions
    Emerging in the 1940s, the first cybernetics—the s…

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    Evolution's Eye: A Systems View of the Biology-Culture Divide
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    4.12     · 17 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2000 · 1 edition
    In recent decades, Susan Oyama and her colleagues …

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    Genes in Development: Re-reading the Molecular Paradigm
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    0.00     · published 2005 · 6 editions
    In light of scientific advances such as genomics, …

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    Growing Explanations: Historical Perspectives on Recent Science
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    4.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2004 · 5 editions
    For much of the twentieth century scientists sough…

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    How Economics Became a Mathematical Science
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    3.57     · 21 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2002 · 9 editions
    In How Economics Became a Mathematical Science E. …

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    Imre Lakatos and the Guises of Reason
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    3.90     · 10 Ratings · published 2001 · 2 editions
    The Hungarian émigré Imre Lakatos (1922–1974) earn…

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    On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods
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    3.85     · 123 Ratings · 14 Reviews · published 2002 · 15 editions
    On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods continues t…

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    Scandalous Knowledge: Science, Truth, and the Human
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    3.74     · 27 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2006 · 9 editions
    Throughout the recent culture and science “wars,” …

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    Science without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives
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    3.25     · 4 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2007 · 3 editions
    Physicists regularly invoke universal laws, such a…

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    The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice
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    4.27     · 329 Ratings · 27 Reviews · published 2002 · 11 editions
    The Body Multiple is an extraordinary ethnography …

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    The Effortless Economy of Science?
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    3.53     · 15 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2004 · 9 editions
    A leading scholar of the history and philosophy of…

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    The Heavens on Earth: Observatories and Astronomy in Nineteenth-Century Science and Culture
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    4.33     · 6 Ratings · published 2010 · 7 editions
    The Heavens on Earth explores the place of the obs…

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    The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency, and Science
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    3.96     · 67 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1995 · 12 editions
    This ambitious book by one of the most original an…

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    The Ontogeny of Information: Developmental Systems and Evolution
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    4.29     · 58 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 1986 · 4 editions
    The Ontogeny of Information is a critical interven…

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    Tissue Economies: Blood, Organs, and Cell Lines in Late Capitalism
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    3.81     · 27 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2006 · 7 editions
    As new medical technologies are developed, more an…

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