Isbn: 9780674792906 - latour: science in action - how to follow scient ists & engineers through society (cloth) (4 risultati)

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Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Light edge wear. Clean, unmarked pages. 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. "Science and technology have immense authority and influence in our society, yet their working remains little understood. The conventional perception of science in Western societies has been modified in recent years by the work of philosophers, sociologists and historians of science. In this book Bruno Latour brings together these different approaches to provide a lively and challenging analysis of science, demonstrating how social context and technical content are both essential to a proper understanding of scientific activity." From the library Dr. Owen Hannaway. Hannaway was director of the Center for the History and Philosophy of Science at Johns Hopkins University. He authored numerous books and served as an editor of academic magazines in the history of science. Partial list of publications: Chemists and the Word: The Didactic Origins of Chemistry (1975); Observation, Experiment, and Hypothesis in Modern Physical Science (1985); The Evolution of Technology (1989); Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (1994); and The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts (1996).…

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Hardcover. Condizione: gut. Science in Action : How to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society In englischer Sprache. pages.