Doing science and culture

Rodney Reid, Sharon Traweek

Routledge, 2000 - Social Science - 339 pages

Doing Science + Culture is a groundbreaking book on the cultural study of science, technology and medicine. Outstanding contributors including life and physical scientists, anthropologists, sociologists, literature/communication scholars and historians of science who focus on the analysis of science and scientific discourses within culture: what it means to "do" science.

Contents

• Faultlines: 21
• Postcolonial Science Big Science and Landscape: 51
• Transnational Genomics: 71
• Wonder Woman and Her Disciplinary Powers: 95
• Researcher or Smoker?: 119
• The Ecstasy oF Miscommunication: 151
• The Rationality oF Mania: 177
• Mainstreaming Feminist Critiques into: 199
• Reconceiving Scientific Literacy as Agential Literacy: 221
• Engineering Cultural Studies: 259
• Calling the Futures with Ethnographic and: 275
• Index: 323

About the author

Roddey Reid is Associate Professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. Sharon Traweek is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles and author of Beamtimes and Lifetimes: The World of High Energy Physicists (1992).

Bibliographic information

• Title: Doing science and culture
• Editors: Rodney Reid, Sharon Traweek
• Contributor: Rodney Reid
• Publisher: Routledge, 2000
• ISBN: 0415921120, 9780415921121
• Length: 339 pages
• Subjects: Science / General; Science / Philosophy & Social Aspects; Social Science / Methodology; Social Science / Sociology / General