Overview

Featuring the work of an all-star cast of writers, Doing Science + Culture is a collection of new work in the cultural study of science, technology, and medicine. The contributors include anthropologists, sociologists, literature/communication scholars, and historians of science who focus on the analysis of science and scientific discourses within culture, rather than 'doing' science. Serving as a road map to the next stage of work in the cultural study of science, this book is a vital contribution by 'science watchers' - cultural analysts who will be explaining how and why we should look at the way science is used and talked about in the contemporary world. Itty Abraham, Anne Balsamo, Karen Barad, Michael M.J. Fischer, Joan H. Fujimura, Scott F. Gilbert, Emily Martin, Jackie Orr, Roddey Reid, Molly Rhodes and Sharon Traweek

Full Product Details

Author:   Roddey Reid ,  Sharon Traweek
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.640kg
ISBN:  

9780415921121

ISBN 10:   0415921120
Pages:   348
Publication Date:   20 September 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments. Introduction: Researching Researchers. 1/Transnational Science and Globalization. Faultlines. Postcolonial Science, Big Science, and Landscape. Transnational Genomics. 2/Emerging Subjcects. Wonder Woman and Her Disciplinary Powers. Researcher or Smoker? The Ecstasy of Miscommunication. The Rationality of Mania. 3/Postdisciplinary Pedagogies and Programs. Mainstreaming Feminist Critiques into the Biology Curriculum. Reconceiving Scientific Literacy as Agential Literacy. Engineering Cultural Studies. Calling the Future(s) with Ethnographic and Historiographic Legacy Disciplines. Index.

Reviews

This important collection by writers who refuse to stay put in their disciplines cleverly reflects the reader's gaze back onto ourselves to highlight the possibilities of experimentalism in research and pedagogy. Locating interdisciplinary work between scientific and cultural settings that reveal changing concepts of self and society, the contributors call attention to better forms of thinking that might be emerging. A must read for researchers and teachers trying to figure out how best to make a difference. <br>-Gary Downey, author of The Machine in Me <br> After the Cold War, comes Cultural Studies. Reid and Traweek give us a thoughtful, rigorous and multi-sited cultural studies. There is much to learn here. <br>-Paul Rabinow, University of California at Berkeley <br> This impressive collection is imbued with a fully examined sense of the post-Cold War conditions and new institutional arrangements in which both science and the cultural study of science are produced. It views the sciences as culturally diverse global processes, in which the dominance of Western science cannot be assumed. These features, plus contributions that report the best of current research in this field, make this a unique volume, a stimulating arena of inquiry accessible to a broad readership. <br>-George E. Marcus, Rice University <br>

Author Information

Roddey Reid is Associate Professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. Sharon Traweek is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles and author of Beamtimes andLifetimes: The World of High Energy Physicists (1992).

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions