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Body Multiple
Ontology in Medical Practice
Häftad, 2003
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266 kr
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The Body Multiple is an extraordinary ethnography of an ordinary disease. Drawing on fieldwork in a Dutch university hospital, Annemarie Mol looks at the day-to-day diagnosis and treatment of atherosclerosis. A patient information leaflet might describe atherosclerosis as the gradual obstruction of …
Evolution's Eye
A Systems View of the Biology-Culture Divide
Av Susan Oyama
Inbunden, 2000
1266 kr
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In recent decades, Susan Oyama and her colleagues in the burgeoning field of developmental systems theory have rejected the determinism inherent in the nature/nurture debate, arguing that behavior cannot be reduced to distinct biological or environmental causes. In Evolution’s Eye Oyama elaborates …
Ontogeny of Information
Developmental Systems and Evolution
Av Susan Oyama
Häftad, 2000
325 kr
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The Ontogeny of Information is a critical intervention into the ongoing and perpetually troubling nature-nurture debates surrounding human development. Originally published in 1985, this was a foundational text in what is now the substantial field of developmental systems theory. In this revised …
Evolution's Eye
A Systems View of the Biology-Culture Divide
Av Susan Oyama
Häftad, 2000
385 kr
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In recent decades, Susan Oyama and her colleagues in the burgeoning field of developmental systems theory have rejected the determinism inherent in the nature/nurture debate, arguing that behavior cannot be reduced to distinct biological or environmental causes. In Evolution’s Eye Oyama elaborates …
Imre Lakatos and the Guises of Reason
Av John Kadvany
Häftad, 2001
441 kr
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The Hungarian ÉmigrÉ Imre Lakatos (1922–1974) earned a worldwide reputation through the influential philosophy of science debates involving Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend, and Sir Karl Popper. In Imre Lakatos and the Guises of Reason John Kadvany shows that embedded in Lakatos’s English-language work …
Aircraft Stories
Decentering the Object in Technoscience
Av John Law
Inbunden, 2002
1604 kr
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In Aircraft Stories noted sociologist of technoscience John Law tells “stories” about a British attempt to build a military aircraft-the TSR2. The intertwining of these stories demonstrates the ways in which particular technological projects can be understood in a world of complex contexts. Law …
Aircraft Stories
Decentering the Object in Technoscience
Av John Law
Häftad, 2002
385 kr
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In Aircraft Stories noted sociologist of technoscience John Law tells “stories” about a British attempt to build a military aircraft-the TSR2. The intertwining of these stories demonstrates the ways in which particular technological projects can be understood in a world of complex contexts. Law …
Complexities
Social Studies of Knowledge Practices
Häftad, 2002
378 kr
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Although much recent social science and humanities work has been a revolt against simplification, this volume explores the contrast between simplicity and complexity to reveal that this dichotomy, itself, is too simplistic. John Law and Annemarie Mol have gathered a distinguished panel of …
How Economics Became a Mathematical Science
Häftad, 2002
385 kr
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In How Economics Became a Mathematical Science E. Roy Weintraub traces the history of economics through the prism of the history of mathematics in the twentieth century. As mathematics has evolved, so has the image of mathematics, explains Weintraub, such as ideas about the standards for accepting …
Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China
Plurality and Synthesis
Häftad, 2002
454 kr
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As a traditional healing art that has established a contemporary global presence, Chinese medicine defies categories and raises many interesting questions. If Chinese medicine is "traditional," why has it not disappeared with the rest of traditional Chinese society? If, as some claim, it is a …
Body Multiple
Ontology in Medical Practice
Inbunden, 2003
1160 kr
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The Body Multiple is an extraordinary ethnography of an ordinary disease. Drawing on fieldwork in a Dutch university hospital, Annemarie Mol looks at the day-to-day diagnosis and treatment of atherosclerosis. A patient information leaflet might describe atherosclerosis as the gradual obstruction of …
Growing Explanations
Historical Perspectives on Recent Science
Häftad, 2004
441 kr
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For much of the twentieth century scientists sought to explain objects and processes by reducing them to their components-nuclei into protons and neutrons, proteins into amino acids, and so on-but over the past forty years there has been a marked turn toward explaining phenomena by building them up …
Effortless Economy of Science?
Häftad, 2004
441 kr
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A leading scholar of the history and philosophy of economic thought, Philip Mirowski argues that there has been a top-to-bottom transformation in how scientific research is organized and funded in Western countries over the past two decades and that these changes necessitate a reexamination of the …
Genes in Development
Re-reading the Molecular Paradigm
Av Eva M. Neumann-Held, Christoph Rehmann-Sutter
Häftad, 2006
454 kr
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In light of scientific advances such as genomics, predictive diagnostics, genetically engineered agriculture, nuclear transfer cloning, and the manipulation of stem cells, the idea that genes carry predetermined molecular programs or blueprints is pervasive. Yet new scientific discoveries-such as …
Tissue Economies
Blood, Organs, and Cell Lines in Late Capitalism
Av Robert Mitchell, Catherine Waldby
Inbunden, 2006
1290 kr
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As new medical technologies are developed, more and more human tissues-such as skin, bones, heart valves, embryos, and stem cell lines-are stored and distributed for therapeutic and research purposes. The accelerating circulation of human tissue fragments raises profound social and ethical concerns …
Tissue Economies
Blood, Organs, and Cell Lines in Late Capitalism
Av Robert Mitchell, Catherine Waldby
Häftad, 2006
343 kr
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As new medical technologies are developed, more and more human tissues-such as skin, bones, heart valves, embryos, and stem cell lines-are stored and distributed for therapeutic and research purposes. The accelerating circulation of human tissue fragments raises profound social and ethical concerns …
Science Without Laws
Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives
Av Angela N. H. Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
385 kr
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Physicists regularly invoke universal laws, such as those of motion and electromagnetism, to explain events. Biological and medical scientists have no such laws. How then do they acquire a reliable body of knowledge about biological organisms and human disease? One way is by repeatedly returning …
Mangle in Practice
Science, Society, and Becoming
Av Andrew Pickering, Keith Guzik
Häftad, 2009
385 kr
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In The Mangle of Practice (1995), the renowned sociologist of science Andrew Pickering argued for a reconceptualization of research practice as a “mangle,” an open-ended, evolutionary, and performative interplay of human and non-human agency. While Pickering’s ideas originated in science and …
Emergence and Embodiment
New Essays on Second-Order Systems Theory
Av Bruce Clarke, Mark B. N. Hansen
Häftad, 2009
579 kr
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Emerging in the 1940s, the first cybernetics-the study of communication and control systems-was mainstreamed under the names artificial intelligence and computer science and taken up by the social sciences, the humanities, and the creative arts. In Emergence and Embodiment, Bruce Clarke and Mark B. …
Heavens on Earth
Observatories and Astronomy in Nineteenth-Century Science and Culture
Av David Aubin, Charlotte Bigg m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
1832 kr
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The Heavens on Earth explores the place of the observatory in nineteenth-century science and culture. Astronomy was a core pursuit for observatories, but usually not the only one. It belonged to a larger group of “observatory sciences” that also included geodesy, meteorology, geomagnetism, and even …
Heavens on Earth
Observatories and Astronomy in Nineteenth-Century Science and Culture
Av David Aubin, Charlotte Bigg m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
441 kr
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The Heavens on Earth explores the place of the observatory in nineteenth-century science and culture. Astronomy was a core pursuit for observatories, but usually not the only one. It belonged to a larger group of “observatory sciences” that also included geodesy, meteorology, geomagnetism, and even …
On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods
Av Bruno Latour
Häftad, 2010
259 kr
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On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods continues the project that the influential anthropologist, philosopher, and science studies theorist Bruno Latour advanced in his book We Have Never Been Modern. There he redescribed the Enlightenment idea of universal scientific truth, arguing that there are …
