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Clarke / Fujimura The Right Tools for the Job
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At Work in Twentieth-Century Life Sciences
E-Book, Englisch, Band 149, 378 Seiten
Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6313-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
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Pt. 1 Introduction
1 What Tools? Which Jobs? Why Right? 3
Pt. II Co-Constructing Tools, Jobs, and Rightness
2 The Role of Instruments in the Generative Analysis of Science 47
3 The Sociology of a Genetic Engineering Technique: Ritual and Rationality in the Performance of the "Plasmid Prep" 77
4 Re/constructing Socioecologies: System Dynamics Modeling of Nomadic Pastoralists in Sub-Saharan Africa 115
Pt. III Disciplining the Tools
5 Manometers, Tissue Slices, and Intermediary Metabolism 151
6 Whatever Happened to Planaria? C. M. Child and the Physiology of Inheritance 172
7 Organisms and Interests in Scientific Research: R. A. Emerson's Claims for the Unique Contributions of Agricultural Genetics 198
8 Measuring Nature: Quantitative Data in Field Biology 233
Pt. IV Changing Constructions of Tools, Jobs, and Rightness
9 Craft vs. Commodity, Mess vs. Transcendence: How the Right Tool Became the Wrong One in the Case of Taxidermy and Natural History 257
10 A Need for Standard Methods: The Case of American Bacteriology 287
11 The Tools of the Discipline: Standards, Models, and Measures in the Affinity/Avidity Controversy in Immunology 312
Index 355