Science as Practice and Culture

by Andrew Pickering

Book Overview

Science as Practice and Culture explores one of the newest and most controversial developments within the rapidly changing field of science studies: the move toward studying scientific practice--the work of doing science--and the associated move toward studying scientific culture, understood as the field of resources that practice operates in and on.

Andrew Pickering has invited leading historians, philosophers, sociologists, and anthropologists...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226668010
• ISBN13: 9780226668017
• Release Date: May 1992
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 482 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"