The Right Tools for the Job: At Work in Twentieth-Century Life Sciences

by Adele E. Clarke

This volume examines scientific practice through studies of research tools in an array of twentieth-century life sciences. The contributors draw upon and extend the multidisciplinary perspectives in current science studies to understand the processes through which scientific researchers constructed the right--and, in some cases, the wrong--tools for the job. The articles portray the crafting or accessing of specific materials, techniques, instruments,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691085811
• ISBN13: 9780691085814
• Release Date: August 1992
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.6"