Picture Control: The Electron Microscope and the Transformation of Biology in America, 1940-1960

by Nicolas Rasmussen

Two major questions motivate this study: How do new devices get taken up as experimental systems by scientists? How does the adoption of new instruments affect scientific knowledge? Many ramifications emerge from these two simple questions. Among these are historical questions about how, by whom, and why new instruments are introduced, or about how another, different set of instruments might be adopted given alternative social and cultural circumstances...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804738505
• ISBN13: 9780804738507
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 436 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Good history of EM

This book combines the history and philosophy of science. If you are interested in electron microscopy it is a must. The book shows how science can have its own "political climate."