Format:
1 online resource (289 pages)
ISBN:
9781000614732
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine Ser.
Content:
Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Evidence in Action -- Follow the Evidence! -- What Is Evidence? -- Evidence in Action -- Tensions of Evidence -- Establishing, Innovating, Governing, and Contesting Evidence -- Evidence in the Knowledge Society -- Notes -- Part I: Establishing Evidence: The Formation of Disciplinary Cultures -- 2. War, Wheat, and Crop Diseases of the Late Enlightenment: Contesting and Producing Evidence in Agriculture in Great Britain -- Introduction -- Crisis -- Cultures of Evidence -- The Debate over Barberry -- Experimentation and Illustrating Evidence -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3. Presenting Chemical Practice in Court: Forensic Toxicology in Nineteenth-Century German States -- Practices and Their Practitioners -- Self-Descriptions of Forensic Toxicologists -- Performing Evidence-Presenting Performance -- Challenging Evidence by Criticizing Practice -- Presenting Chemical Practice -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- 4. No "Mere Accumulation of Material": Fieldwork Practices and Embedded Evidence in Early (Latin) Americanist Anthropology -- Let's Go Marching on American Soil": Landmass and Mapping -- A Beautiful Piece of Land, Fertile and Exuberant": Scientists and American Landscape -- There Is Much to Exhume": Evidence Buried in Layers of Soil -- Among the Living Peoples": The Future of Fieldwork -- Notes -- Part II: Innovating Evidence: Contemporary Technoscientific Approaches -- 5. Prototyping Evidence: How Artifacts Demonstrate Technological Futures -- Present Futures -- Prototypes as Epistemic Objects -- Prototypes as Demonstrative Evidence -- Public Evaluation of Prototypes -- Making Futures Evident -- Notes -- 6. On Top of the Hierarchy: How Guidelines Shape Systematic Reviewing in Biomedicine.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781032037059
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781032037059
Language:
English
