| Description |
xi, 365 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Table of contents for The Right tools for the job : at work in twentieth-century life sciences / edited by Adele E. Clarke and Joan H. Fujimura. -- Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog -- Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. May be incomplete or contain other coding. -- Contributors Acknowledgments Pt. 1 Introduction 1 What Tools? Which Jobs? Why Right? 3 Pt. II Co-Constructing Tools, Jobs, and Rightness 2 The Role of Instruments in the Generative Analysis of Science 47 3 The Sociology of a Genetic Engineering Technique: Ritual and Rationality in the Performance of the "Plasmid Prep" 77 4 Re/constructing Socioecologies: System Dynamics Modeling of Nomadic Pastoralists in Sub-Saharan Africa 115 Pt. III Disciplining the Tools 5 Manometers, Tissue Slices, and Intermediary Metabolism 151 6 Whatever Happened to Planaria? C. M. Child and the Physiology of Inheritance 172 7 Organisms and Interests in Scientific Research: R. A. Emerson's Claims for the Unique Contributions of Agricultural Genetics 198 8 Measuring Nature: Quantitative Data in Field Biology 233 Pt. IV Changing Constructions of Tools, Jobs, and Rightness 9 Craft vs. Commodity, Mess vs. Transcendence: How the Right Tool Became the Wrong One in the Case of Taxidermy and Natural History 257 10 A Need for Standard Methods: The Case of American Bacteriology 287 11 The Tools of the Discipline: Standards, Models, and Measures in the Affinity/Avidity Controversy in Immunology 312 Index 355 -- Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Life sciences Research Methodology History 20th century, Biological apparatus and supplies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Biological apparatus and supplies.
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Life sciences -- Research -- Methodology -- History -- 20th century.
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| Author |
Clarke, Adele E.
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Fujimura, Joan H.
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| LC no. |
91046444 |
| ISBN |
0691085811 (alk. paper) |
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