Crafting Science - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Crafting Science write by Joan H. Fujimura. This book was released on 1996. Crafting Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the late 1970s and 1980s, "cancer" underwent a remarkable transformation. In one short decade, what had long been a set of heterogeneous diseases marked by uncontrolled cell growth became a disease of our genes. How this happened and what it means is the story Joan Fujimura tells in a rare inside look at the way science works and knowledge is created. A dramatic study of a new species of scientific revolution, this book combines a detailed ethnography of scientific thought, an in-depth account of science practiced and produced, a history of one branch of science as it entered the limelight, and a view of the impact of new genetic technologies on science and society. The scientific enterprise that Fujimura unfolds for us is proto-oncogene cancer research--the study of those segments of DNA now thought to make normal cells cancerous. Within this framework, she describes the processes of knowledge construction as a social enterprise, an endless series of negotiations in which theories, material technologies, and practices are co-constructed, incorporated, and refashioned. Along the way, Fujimura addresses long-standing questions in the history and philosophy of science, culture theory, and sociology of science: How do scientists create "good" problems, experiments, and solutions? What are the cultural, institutional, and material technologies that have to be in place for new truths and new practices to succeed? Portraying the development of knowledge as a multidimensional process conducted through multiple cultures, institutions, actors, objects, and practices, this book disrupts divisions among sociology, history, anthropology, and the philosophy of science, technology, and medicine.
Crafting Immunity
Crafting Immunity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Crafting Immunity write by Jennifer Keelan. This book was released on 2017-03-02. Crafting Immunity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Immunity is as old as illness itself, yet historians have only just begun to take up the challenge of reconstructing the modern transformation of attempts to protect against disease. Crafting Immunity assembles in one volume the most recent efforts of an international group of scholars to place the diverse practices of immunity in their historical contexts. It is this diversity that provides the book with its greatest source of strength. Collectively, the papers in this volume suggest that it was the craft-like, small-scale, and local conditions of clinical medicine that turned the immunity of individuals and populations into biomedical objects. That is to say, the modern conception of immunity was at least as much the product of the work of healing as it was the systematic result of discoveries about the immune system. Working outside the narrow confines of laboratory histories, Crafting Immunity is the first attempt to set the problems of immunity into a variety of social, technological, institutional and intellectual contexts. It will appeal not only to historians and sociologists of health, but also to social and cultural historians interested in the biomedical creation of modern health regimens.
Crafting Law on the Supreme Court
Crafting Law on the Supreme Court - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Crafting Law on the Supreme Court write by Forrest Maltzman. This book was released on 2000-07-03. Crafting Law on the Supreme Court available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Supreme Court decisions stem largely from the political nature of the opinion writing process.
Global Transformations in the Life Sciences, 1945–1980
Global Transformations in the Life Sciences, 1945–1980 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Global Transformations in the Life Sciences, 1945–1980 write by Patrick Manning. This book was released on 2018-06-07. Global Transformations in the Life Sciences, 1945–1980 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The second half of the twentieth century brought extraordinary transformations in knowledge and practice of the life sciences. In an era of decolonization, mass social welfare policies, and the formation of new international institutions such as UNESCO and the WHO, monumental advances were made in both theoretical and practical applications of the life sciences, including the discovery of life’s molecular processes and substantive improvements in global public health and medicine. Combining perspectives from the history of science and world history, this volume examines the impact of major world-historical processes of the postwar period on the evolution of the life sciences. Contributors consider the long-term evolution of scientific practice, research, and innovation across a range of fields and subfields in the life sciences, and in the context of Cold War anxieties and ambitions. Together, they examine how the formation of international organizations and global research programs allowed for transnational exchange and cooperation, but in a period rife with competition and nationalist interests, which influenced dramatic changes in the field as the postcolonial world order unfolded.
Awesome Craft Stick Science
Awesome Craft Stick Science - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Awesome Craft Stick Science write by Tammy Enz. This book was released on 2016-08. Awesome Craft Stick Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Details how to use craft sticks in projects that demostrate scientific principles"--
