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Sciences and cultures : anthropological and historical studies of the sciences
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- Creator
- edited by Everett Mendelsohn and Yehuda Elkana
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Dordrecht, Holland ; Boston : D. Reidel Pub. Co. ; Hingham, MA : Distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Boston, [1981]
- ©1981
- Physical Details
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- xvii, 270 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9789027712349, 9027712344, 9789027712356, 9027712352
- OCLC
- ocm07461923
- Includes bibliographies and index.
- A programmatic attempt at an anthropology of knowledge / Yehuda Elkana -- On the boundaries of science in seventeenth-century England / Peter W.G. Wright -- What should we do with the monster? / Kenneth L. Caneva -- Science and modern Chinese culture / Peter Buch -- The meaning context of illness and care / Arthur Kleinman -- The semantics of medical discourse / Byron J. Good and Mary-Jo Del Vecchio Good -- The necessity of field methods in the study of scientific research / Robert S. Anderson -- Anthropological perspectives in the sociology of science / Wolf Lepenies