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Ways of knowing : a new history of science, technology, and medicine
- Title
- Ways of knowing : a new history of science, technology, and medicine / John V. Pickstone.
- Author
- Pickstone, John V.
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | Q125 .P595 2001 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xii, 271 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- This text provides an accessible framework for understanding science, technology, and medicine (STM) in the West from the Renaissance to the 21st-century. John V. Pickstone's approach has four key features. First, he synthesizes the long-term histories and philosophies of disciplines that are normally studied separately. Second, he dissects STM into specific ways of knowing - natural history, analysis, and experimentalism - with separate but interlinked elements. Third, he explores these ways of knowing as forms of work related to our various technologies for making, mending, and destroying. And finally, he relates scientific and technical knowledges to popular understandings and to politics.
- Covering a wide range of subjects, from minerals and machines to patients and pharmaceuticals, and from experimental physics to genetic engineering, Pickstone's "Ways of Knowing" challenges the reader to re-examine traditional conceptualizations of the history, philosophy, and social studies of science, technology, and medicine.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [226]-259) and index.
- Contents
- Ways of knowing: an introduction -- World readings: the meanings of nature and of science -- Natural history -- Analysis and the rationalisation of production -- The elements of bodies, earth and society -- Experimentalism and invention -- Industries, universities and the technoscientific complexes -- Technoscience and public understandings: the British case c.2000.
- ISBN
- 0226667944
- 9780226667942
- 0226667952
- 9780226667959
- LCCN
- 00053248
- OCLC
- ocm45320488
- 45320488
- SCSB-1216721
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library