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9780226667959

Ways of Knowing

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    9780226667959

  • ISBN10:

    0226667952

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-04-01
  • Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

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Summary

InWays of Knowing,John V. Pickstone provides a new and accessible framework for understanding science, technology, and medicine (STM) in the West from the Renaissance to the present. 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 knowingnatural history, analysis, and experimentalismwith 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 an incredibly wide range of subjects, from minerals and machines to patients and pharmaceuticals, and from experimental physics to genetic engineering, Pickstone'sWays of Knowingchallenges the reader to reexamine traditional conceptualizations of the history, philosophy, and social studies of science, technology, and medicine.

Author Biography

John V. Pickstone is director of the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine and the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at the University of Manchester. He has edited or coedited a number of books, most recently Medicine in the Twentieth Century (with Roger Cooter), and has written widely on the history of biomedical sciences, medicine, and science in Britain, and on medical innovations and policy.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements viii
A note to the reader xi
Ways of knowing: an introduction
1(32)
An outline of the method
5(16)
Missions for this book
21(7)
An outline of the story
28(5)
World-readings: the meanings of nature and of science
33(27)
Variety in modern Western medicine
34(3)
Meanings and readings
37(2)
Renaissance cosmologies
39(2)
Disenchantment?
41(4)
Natural theology and natural diseases
45(3)
Revolution, respectability and evolution
48(2)
Science, progress and the State
50(3)
Modernist human-natures
53(2)
Nature and culture
55(5)
Natural history
60(23)
`Historia' and representation
62(2)
New worlds, new properties and new creators
64(4)
Natures for pedigree people
68(5)
Natural empires
73(3)
Popular natural history
76(1)
Displays of technology, new and old
77(3)
`Natural history' now
80(3)
Analysis and the rationalisation of production
83(23)
Analysis from the ancient world
86(1)
Analytical aspirations
87(2)
The elements of chemistry
89(3)
Analysis for engineers
92(3)
Analysis and `physics'
95(4)
Rationalised production
99(1)
Rationalisation and identities
100(2)
Production and analytical sciences
102(4)
The elements of bodies, earth and society
106(29)
Medical analysis: corpse and patient
106(9)
Analysing plants and animals
115(7)
Sciences of the earth
122(3)
Analysing the social
125(5)
Reflections on the institutions of analysis
130(5)
Experimentalism and invention
135(27)
Meanings of experiment
137(1)
Experimental histories
138(1)
Experimentation and the age of analysis
139(2)
Synthesis in chemistry
141(2)
Experimentation in biomedical sciences
143(3)
Experimentation in physical sciences
146(5)
On clouds, dust and control
151(3)
Experimentalism and hierarchies of knowledge
154(3)
Experiment and invention
157(5)
Industries, universities and the technoscientific complexes
162(27)
Analysis and established technologies
165(3)
Electrical analysis and synthesis
168(4)
Electrotechnics and industrial laboratories
172(2)
Dyestuffs and pharmaceuticals
174(2)
Remedies for/from microbes
176(2)
Science and industry in and after the First World War
178(5)
Technosciences in and after the Second World War
183(3)
Coda
186(3)
Technoscience and public understandings: the British case c.2000
189(37)
`No one understands us'
193(2)
Science back in business
195(2)
The study of `public understanding of science'
197(2)
The politics of technoscience
199(4)
Understanding public science
203(3)
Analysis and the bounds of `science'
206(3)
Publics and natural histories
209(7)
Public understandings and world-readings
216(4)
Science, values and history
220(6)
Bibliography 226(34)
Index 260

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