The Invisible Industrialist: Manufactures and the Production of Scientific Knowledge - Rilegato

University Of Manchester Centre For The History Of Science, Technology

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ISBN 10: 033364753X ISBN 13: 9780333647530

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 1998

Riassunto

Industrial methods, and industrially produced instruments, reagents and living organisms are central to research activities today. They play a key role in the homogenization and the diffusion of laboratory practices, thus in their transformation into a stable and unproblematic knowledge about the natural world. This book displays the - frequently invisible - role of industry in the construction of fundamental scientific knowledge through the examination of case studies taken from the history of nineteenth and the twentieth century physics, chemistry and biomedical sciences.

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L'autore:

OTTO SIBUM Fellow Researcher, Max Planck Institut fur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, BerlinJEFF HUGHES Lecturer in History of Science and Technology, University of ManchesterTERRY SHINN is conducting researchANTHONY TRAVIS Deputy Director, Sidney M. Edelstein Centre for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, IsraelJORDAN GOODMAN Senior Lecturer in History, University of Manchester Institute of Science and TechnologyNICOLAS RASMUSSEN Lecturer in History of Science, University of SidneyPETER KEATING Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Quebec (Montreal)ALBERTO CAMBROSIO Associate Professor, Department of Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University (Montreal)VIVIEN WALSH Senior Lecturer in Innovation and Technology Management, UMISTNELLY OUDSHOORN Lecturer, Department of Science and Technology Dynamics, University of Amsterdam

Contenuti:

Notes on the Contributors
General Introduction
PART 1: TOOLS AND RESEARCH MATERIALS, THE INDUSTRIALIST AS PRODUCER
Introduction Part 1
An Old Hand in a New System: Brewing Culture in Jame's Joule Heat Measurements; H. Sibum
Sealing Wax and Strings, Plasticine and Valves: Industry, Instrumentation and the Emergence of Nuclear Physics; J. Hughes
Instrument Hierarchies: Laboratories, Industry and Divisions of Labour; T. Shinn
Theory from Practice: Portraying the Constitution of Synthetic Dyestuffs in the 1860s; T. Travis
Can it Ever be Pure Science? Pharmaceuticals, the Pharmaceutical Industry, and Biomedical Research in the 20th Century; J. Goodman
PART 2: STANDARDIZING TOOLS, OPERATORS AND PRACTICE: THE INDUSTRIALIST AS REGULATOR
Introduction
Instruments, Scientists, Industrialists and the Specificity of Influence: The Case of RCA and Biological Electron Microscopy; N. Rasmussen
Disciplining Cancer: Mice and the Practice of Genetic Purity - Ilana Lowy & Jean-Paul Gaudilliere
Interlaboratory Life: Regulating Flow Cytometry; Peter Keating & Alberto Cambrosio
PART 3: ORGANIZATION OF RESEARCH AND POLICY: THE INDUSTRIALIST AS MANAGER
Introduction
Industrial R&D and Its Influence on the Organisation and Management of the Production of Knowledge in the Public Sector; V. Walsh
Shifting Boundaries between Industry and Science: the Role of WHO in Contraceptive R&D; N. Oudshoorn
Index

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• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 033364753X
• ISBN 13: 9780333647530
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 379
• Redattore: Gaudilliere Jean-Paul, Lowy Ilana