Knowledges: Historical and Critical Studies in Disciplinarity

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Ellen Messer-Davidow, David R. Shumway, David Sylvan
University of Virginia Press, 1993 - Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge - 466 pages

The editors of this volume have brought together a distinguished and truly diverse group of contributors to examine how all sorts of knowledges have been constituted and to reconsider their constitution.

 

Contents

GENEALOGIES
4
A Postmodern Optic or Just Bad Eyesight?
54
Timothy Lenoir
70
Andrew Pickering
103
Disciplinary Boundaries and the Rhetoric of
125
Division and Difference in the Discipline of Economics
150
Seeing through Art History
215
The Medical Division of Labor
232
Gendered States
243
Examining Exams
305
The Social Construction of Two Biologists Articles
327
The Disciplinarity of Knowledge at
368
COUNTER AND POSTDISCIPLINARY PROJECTS
397
David Kennedy
422
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TitleKnowledges: Historical and Critical Studies in Disciplinarity
Knowledge Series
Knowledge, disciplinarity and beyond
EditorsEllen Messer-Davidow, David R. Shumway, David Sylvan
Editionillustrated
PublisherUniversity of Virginia Press, 1993
ISBN0813914280, 9780813914282
Length466 pages
  
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