Never Pure: Historical Studies of Science as if It Was Produced by People with Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture, and Society, and Struggling for Credibility and Authority - Softcover

Shapin, Steven

 
9780801894213: Never Pure: Historical Studies of Science as if It Was Produced by People with Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture, and Society, and Struggling for Credibility and Authority
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0801894212 ISBN 13: 9780801894213
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Steven Shapin argues that science, for all its immense authority and power, is and always has been a human endeavor, subject to human capacities and limits. Put simply, science has never been pure. To be human is to err, and we understand science better when we recognize it as the laborious achievement of fallible, imperfect, and historically situated human beings.

Shapin’s essays collected here include reflections on the historical relationships between science and common sense, between science and modernity, and between science and the moral order. They explore the relevance of physical and social settings in the making of scientific knowledge, the methods appropriate to understanding science historically, dietetics as a compelling site for historical inquiry, the identity of those who have made scientific knowledge, and the means by which science has acquired credibility and authority.

This wide-ranging and intensely interdisciplinary collection by one of the most distinguished historians and sociologists of science represents some of the leading edges of change in the scholarly understanding of science over the past several decades.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Steven Shapin is the Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard, and his books includeLeviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life (with Simon Schaffer),A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England, andThe Scientific Revolution. He has written for the New Yorker and writes regularly for theLondon Review of Books.

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Verlag
Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0801894212
ISBN 13 
9780801894213
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Anzahl der Seiten
564
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