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Laboratory Life

Laboratory Life The Construction of Scientific Facts

2nd Edition

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780691028323
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Pub date:
Edition: 2nd Edition
DEWEY: 574.072
DEWEY edition: 19
Language: English
Number of pages: 294
Weight: 380g
Height: 139mm
Width: 215mm
Spine width: 20mm