Culturing Bioscience

Udo Krautwurst is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Prince Edward Island. He is a social theorist with a particular interest in the anthropology of representation, practice, and the historical confrontations between forms of knowledge production and technology.

• Acknowledgments Introduction IntraductionA Beginning Is Always in the Middle of Something Bioscience in an Out-of-the-Way Place: How It Got Started The Organization of the Book: Magnifying Currents Science Studies: A Brief Outline of Newtonian and Quantum Versions Thirty Years of Bioscience in Action A Theoretical and Methodological Intralude An Indeterminate List of Agential Realist Concepts Thinking through Methods, Thinking Methods through 1. Intra-Action and Doing Science:Experiments, People, and Technology Investigating Neuroscience 2. Re-Visioning Scientific Practice through the ACCBR A Vision: From Cooperation to Collaboration Structure and Practice, or, Space. . . . the Final Frontier? The Near Future of the ACCBR 3. What Can You Do in, to, and with a University? Anthropology and the Call to "Study up" The University in Transformation 4. Science and/as Development Science and/as Science Policy:The Triple Helix, Modes 1 and 2, and Business Clusters Culturing Bioscience on Prince Edward Island 5. Globalizing Bioscience and/as Biocapital Global Biocapital and/as Community Bioscience, Biocapital, and Business Clusters: Intellectual Property on PEI Concluding:Lessons from an Open Concept Lab Appendix 1:A Parable on Changing Assumptions, or, How to Approximate Agential Realism Appendix 2:Fieldwork in the Academy, and the Ethics of Ethics References Index