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OverviewCharting the rise and fall of an experimental biomedical facility at a North American university, Culturing Bioscience offers a fascinating glimpse into scientific culture and the social and political context in which that culture operates. Krautwurst nests the discussion of scientific culture within a series of levels from the lab to the global political economy. In the process he explores a number of topics, including: the social impact of technology; researchers' relationships with sophisticated equipment; what scientists actually do in a laboratory; what role science plays in the contemporary university; and the way bioscience interacts with local, regional, and global governments. The result is a rich case study that illustrates a host of contemporary issues in the social study of science. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Udo KrautwurstPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 15.40cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.300kg ISBN: 9781442604629ISBN 10: 144260462 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 27 August 2014 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of Contents"Acknowledgments Introduction Intraduction A Beginning Is Always in the Middle of Something Bioscience in an Out-of-the-Way Place: How It Got Started The Organization of the Book: Magnifying Currents Science Studies: A Brief Outline of Newtonian and Quantum Versions Thirty Years of Bioscience in Action A Theoretical and Methodological Intralude An Indeterminate List of Agential Realist Concepts Thinking through Methods, Thinking Methods through 1. Intra-Action and Doing Science: Experiments, People, and Technology Investigating Neuroscience 2. Re-Visioning Scientific Practice through the ACCBR A Vision: From Cooperation to Collaboration Structure and Practice, or, Space... the Final Frontier? The Near Future of the ACCBR 3. What Can You Do in, to, and with a University? Anthropology and the Call to ""Study up"" The University in Transformation 4. Science and/as Development Science and/as Science Policy: The Triple Helix, Modes 1 and 2, and Business Clusters Culturing Bioscience on Prince Edward Island 5. Globalizing Bioscience and/as Biocapital Global Biocapital and/as Community Bioscience, Biocapital, and Business Clusters: Intellectual Property on PEI Concluding: Lessons from an Open Concept Lab Appendix 1: A Parable on Changing Assumptions, or, How to Approximate Agential Realism Appendix 2: Fieldwork in the Academy, and the Ethics of Ethics References Index"ReviewsCulturing Bioscience draws readers into thinking about how science is practiced, organized, and invested in by different kinds of actors, and introduces a wealth of concepts and authors (from Evelyn Fox Keller, Sharon Traweek, and Annemarie Mol to Hannah Landecker), all framed by Karen Barad's conception of agential realism. The text moves from analyzing lab practices and knowledge forms (including embodied, tacit knowledge forms), to the organization and dynamics of an innovatively designed biomedical research center, and on to the forces shaping the university and research writ large before ending with an exploration of science-as-means-of-development. A great text for undergraduate teaching.--Kim Fortun, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute A witty tour of an innovative but marginalized effort in biomedical science, diffracted through the language of agential realism. Applying an ever-widening focus, from the lab bench and local institutional jockeying to efforts at economic development and international patent sales, Krautwurst uses this case study as a concise guide to contemporary issues in the anthropology of science.--Sergio Sismondo, Queen's University Author InformationUdo Krautwurst is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Prince Edward Island. He is a social theorist with a particular interest in the anthropology of representation, practice, and the historical confrontations between forms of knowledge production and technology. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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