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Subject(s)

• Life sciences—Social aspects—Case studies [Browse]
• Life sciences—Political aspects—Case studies [Browse]
• Life sciences—Economic aspects—Case studies [Browse]
• Life sciences—Government policy—Case studies [Browse]

Series

• Teaching culture [More in this series]
• Teaching culture: UTP ethnographies for the classroom [More in this series]

Summary note

"Charting the rise and fall of an experimental biomedical facility at a North American university, Culturing Bioscience offers a fascinating glimpse into scientific culture and the social and political context in which that culture operates. Krautwurst nests the discussion of scientific culture within a series of levels from the lab to the global political economy. In the process he explores a number of topics, including: the social impact of technology; researchers' relationships with sophisticated equipment; what scientists actually do in a laboratory; what role science plays in the contemporary university; and the way bioscience interacts with local, regional, and global governments. The result is a rich case study that illustrates a host of contemporary issues in the social study of science."-- Publishers description.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-167) and index.

Contents

• Intralude
• A theoretical and methodological intralude
• Intra-action and doing science : experiments, people, and technology
• Re-visioning scientific practice through the ACCBR
• What can you do in, to, and with a university?
• Science and/as development
• Globalizing bioscience and/as biocapital
• Concluding: Lessons from an open concept lab
• Appendix 1: A parable on changing assumptions, or, How to approximate agential realism
• Appendix 2: Fieldwork in the academy, and the ethics of ethics.

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Other format(s)

Issued also in electronic format.

ISBN

• 9781442604629 ((pbk.))
• 144260462X ((pbk.))
• 9781442608139 ((bound))
• 1442608137 ((bound))

LCCN

2014451476

OCLC

876425156

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