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The Body Multiple
"The Body Multiple" is an ethnography of an ordinary disease. Drawing on fieldwork in a Dutch university hospital, Annemarie Mol looks at the day-to-day diagnosis and treatment of …
On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods
On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods continues the project that the influential anthropologist, philosopher, and science studies theorist Bruno Latour advanced in his book We …
The Ontogeny of Information
A critical intervention into the ongoing nature-nurture debates surrounding human development. Susan Oyama argues that nature and nurture are not alternative influences on human …
Evolution's Eye
Susan Oyama rejects the determinism inherent in the nature/nurture debate. In this volume, she elaborates on her work on developmental systems by spelling out that work's …
Complexities
These essays examine complexity from a variety of perspectives and cover an array of case studies and topics that include market behaviour, medical interventions, aeronautical …
Tissue Economies
As new medical technologies are developed, more and more human tissues—such as skin, bones, heart valves, embryos, and stem cell lines—are stored and distributed for therapeutic …
The Effortless Economy of Science?
A leading scholar of the history and philosophy of economic thought, Philip Mirowski argues that there has been a top-to-bottom transformation in how scientific research is …
Science without Laws
Physicists regularly invoke universal laws, such as those of motion and electromagnetism, to explain events. Biological and medical scientists have no such laws. How then do they …
Growing Explanations
For much of the twentieth century scientists sought to explain objects and processes by reducing them to their components—nuclei into protons and neutrons, proteins into amino …
How Economics Became a Mathematical Science
This volume traces the history of economics through the prism of the history of mathematics in the 20th century.
The Mangle in Practice
In The Mangle of Practice (1995), the renowned sociologist of science Andrew Pickering argued for a reconceptualization of research practice as a “mangle,” an open-ended, …
Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China
As a traditional healing art that has established a contemporary global presence, Chinese medicine defies categories and raises many interesting questions. If Chinese medicine is …