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Cultural boundaries of science : credibility on the line
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- Creator
- Thomas F. Gieryn
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- English
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- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999
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- xiv, 398 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780226292618, 0226292614, 9780226292625, 0226292622
- OCLC
- ocm39108606
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-381) and index.
- Introduction: Contesting Credibility Cartographically -- 1. John Tyndall's Double Boundary-Work: Science, Religion, and Mechanics in Victorian England -- 2. The U.S. Congress Demarcates Natural Science and Social Science (Twice) -- 3. May the Best Science Win: Competition for the Chair of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh, 1836 -- 4. The (Cold) Fusion of Science, Mass Media, and Politics -- 5. Hybridizing Credibilities: Albert and Gabrielle Howard Compost Organic Waste, Science, and the Rest of Society -- Epilogue: Home to Roost: "Science Wars" as Boundary-Work