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The Right tools for the job at work in twentieth-century life sciences

Adele Clarke; Joan H Fujimura

Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press c1992

Localização: IB - Instituto de Biociências    (QH315 R571 )(Acessar)

  • Título:
    The Right tools for the job at work in twentieth-century life sciences
  • Autor: Adele Clarke; Joan H Fujimura
  • Assuntos: Life sciences -- Research -- Methodology -- History -- 20th century; Biological apparatus and supplies; BIOLOGIA
  • Notas: Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Descrição: What tools? which jobs? why right? / Adele E. Clarke and Joan H. Fujimura -- The role of instruments in the generative analysis of science / James R. Griesemer -- The sociology of a genetic engineering technique : ritual and ra tionality in the performance of the "plasmid prep" / Kathleen Jordan and Michael Lynch -- Re/constructing socioecologies : system dynamics modeling of nomadic pastoralists in sub-Saharan Africa / Peter J. Taylor -- Manometers, tissue slices, and intermediary metabolism / Frederic L. Holmes -- Whatever happened to Planaria? : C.M. Child and the physiology of inheritance / Gregg Mitman and Anne Fausto-Sterling -- Organisms and interests in scientific r esearch : R.A. Emerson's claims for the unique contributions of agricultural genetics / Barbara A. Kimmelman -- Measuring nature : quantitative data in field biology / Yrjö Haila Craft vs. commodity, mess vs. transcendence : how the right tool became the wrong one in the case of taxidermy and natural history / Susan Leigh Star -- A need for standard methods : the case of American bacteriology / Patricia Peck Gossel -- The tools of discipline : standards, models, and measures in the affinity/avidity controversy in immunology / Peter Keating, Alberto Cambrosio, and Michael Mackenzie
  • Editor: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press
  • Data de criação/publicação: c1992
  • Formato: xi, 365 p. ill. 25 cm.
  • Idioma: Inglês

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