UID:
almafu_9959114207602883
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781442604636
Series Statement:
Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
Content:
Charting the rise and fall of an experimental biomedical facility at a North American university, Culturing Bioscience offers a fascinating glimpse into scientific culture and the social and political context in which that culture operates. Krautwurst nests the discussion of scientific culture within a series of levels from the lab to the global political economy. In the process he explores a number of topics, including: the social impact of technology; researchers' relationships with sophisticated equipment; what scientists actually do in a laboratory; what role science plays in the contemporary university; and the way bioscience interacts with local, regional, and global governments. The result is a rich case study that illustrates a host of contemporary issues in the social study of science.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Intraduction --
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A Theoretical and Methodological Intralude --
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Chapter 1. Intra-Action and Doing Science: Experiments, People, and Technology --
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Chapter 2. Re-Visioning Scientific Practice through the ACCBR --
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Chapter 3. What Can You Do in, to, and with a University? --
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Chapter 4. Science and/as Development --
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Chapter 5. Globalizing Bioscience and/as Biocapital --
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Concluding: Lessons from an Open Concept Lab --
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Appendix 1. A Parable on Changing Assumptions, or, How to Approximate Agential Realism --
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Appendix 2. Fieldwork in the Academy, and the Ethics of Ethics --
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References --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3138/9781442604636
URL:
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442604636
URL:
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442604636
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