Culturing Bioscience

A Case Study in the Anthropology of Science

AvUdo Krautwurst

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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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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Utgivningsdatum:2014-08-27
Mått:154 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt:300 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:University of Toronto Press
ISBN:9781442604629

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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.

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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