Constructing knowledge in the history of science

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Constructing knowledge in the history of science

edited by Arnold Thackray

(Osiris : a research journal devoted to the history of science and its cultural influences, 2nd ser. ; v. 10)

University of Chicago Press, 1995

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  • : pbk

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Bibliography: p. 233-241

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Providing a review of current controversies, emerging agendas and recent research in the history of science, these essays are organized to consider such themes as knowledge and values, gender or authorship; knowledge constructed by discipline, chronology or geography; and knowledge in related fields. Contributors include: Lorraine Daston on the moral economy of science; Evelyn Fox Keller on gender in science; Sally Gregory Kohlstedt on women in science; David C. Lindberg on medieval science and its religious context; Shigeru Nakayama on East Asian science; Daniel J. Kevles and Gerald L. Geison on the modern experimental life sciences; Joan L. Richards on mathematics and the human mind; Nancy J. Nersessian on cognitive science and history of science; John Harley Warner on history of science and the sciences of medicine; Thomas Nickles on philosophy of science and history of science; and Stephen Brush on scientists as historians.

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  • NCID
    BA26088973
  • ISBN
    • 0226793761
    • 0226793788
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Chicago
  • Pages/Volumes
    viii, 253 p.
  • Size
    26 cm
  • Classification
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