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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,""' and how the scientific vision of reality becomes that set of statements considered, for the time being, too expensive to change. The book is based on field work done by Bruno Latour in Roger Guillemin's laboratory at the Salk Institute and provides an important link between the sociology of modern scienc

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  • ""The pioneering 'laboratory study' in the sociology of scientific knowledge. ... The first and, deservedly, the most influential book-length account of day-to-day work in a single laboratory setting."--ISIS."
  • "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,""' and how the scientific vision of reality becomes that set of statements considered, for the time being, too expensive to change. The book is based on field work done by Bruno Latour in Roger Guillemin's laboratory at the Salk Institute and provides an important link between the sociology of modern scienc"@en
  • "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, "and how the scientific vision of reality becomes that set of statements considered, for the time being, too expensive to change. The book is based on field work done by Bruno Latour in Roger Guillemin's laboratory at the Salk Institute and provides an important link between the sociology of modern sciences and laboratory studies in the history of science."
  • ""Laboratory Life succeeds and will continue to succeed, and to win friends and allies, because it contains good, persuasive ideas, such as the analyses of modalities and of splitting. These ideas have been generated by excellent social scientists. All the rest is so much window undressing."--H.M. Collins, Isis."

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  • "Laboratory life the construction of scientific facts"
  • "La vida en el laboratorio"
  • "La vida en el laboratorio : la construcción de los hechos científicos"
  • "La vida en el laboratorio : la construcción de los hechos científicos"@es
  • "Laboratory life : The construction of scientific facts"
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  • "Laboratory Life The Construction of Scientific Facts"@en
  • "La Vida en el laboratorio : la construcción de los hechos científicos"
  • "Laboratory life : the construction of scienctific facts"
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  • "Laboratory life : the construction of scientific facts"
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