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Pandora's hope : essays on the reality of science studies

Title
Pandora's hope : essays on the reality of science studies / Bruno Latour.
Author
Latour, Bruno.
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.

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Description
x, 324 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 312-316) and index.
Contents
1. "Do You Believe in Reality?" News from the Trenches of the Science Wars -- 2. Circulating Reference: Sampling the Soil in the Amazon Forest -- 3. Science's Blood Flow: An Example from Joliot's Scientific Intelligence -- 4. From Fabrication to Reality: Pasteur and His Lactic Acid Ferment -- 5. The Historicity of Things: Where Were Microbes before Pasteur? -- 6. A Collective of Humans and Nonhumans: Following Daedalus's Labyrinth -- 7. The Invention of the Science Wars: The Settlement of Socrates and Callicles -- 8. A Politics Freed from Science: The Body Cosmopolitic -- 9. The Slight Surprise of Action: Facts, Fetishes, Factishes -- Conclusion: What Contrivance Will Free Pandora's Hope?
ISBN
  • 0674653351 (alk. paper)
  • 067465336X (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 98050061
  • 9780674653368
OCLC
ocm40311545
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries