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The Right tools for the job : at work in twentieth-century life sciences
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- Creator
- edited by Adele E. Clarke and Joan H. Fujimura
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- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1992]
- ©1992
- Physical Details
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- xi, 365 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780691603421, 9780691085814, 1306985382, 1400863139, 9780691632759, 0691085811, 0691603421, 0691632758, 9781400863136
- OCLC
- ocn922698805, ocn999371646, ocn889252386, ocm25047686, ocn899262965
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- What tools? which jobs? why right? / Adele E. Clarke and Joan H. Fujimura -- The role of instruments in the generative analysis of science / James R. Griesemer -- The sociology of a genetic engineering technique : ritual and rationality in the performance of the "plasmid prep" / Kathleen Jordan and Michael Lynch -- Re/constructing socioecologies : system dynamics modeling of nomadic pastoralists in sub-Saharan Africa / Peter J. Taylor -- Manometers, tissue slices, and intermediary metabolism / Frederic L. Holmes -- Whatever happened to Planaria? : C.M. Child and the physiology of inheritance / Gregg Mitman and Anne Fausto-Sterling -- Organisms and interests in scientific research : R.A. Emerson's claims for the unique contributions of agricultural genetics / Barbara A. Kimmelman -- Measuring nature : quantitative data in field biology / Yrjö Haila
- Craft vs. commodity, mess vs. transcendence : how the right tool became the wrong one in the case of taxidermy and natural history / Susan Leigh Star -- A need for standard methods : the case of American bacteriology / Patricia Peck Gossel -- The tools of discipline : standards, models, and measures in the affinity/avidity controversy in immunology / Peter Keating, Alberto Cambrosio, and Michael Mackenzie