The invisible industrialist : manufactures and the production of scientific knowledge
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The invisible industrialist : manufactures and the production of scientific knowledge
（Science, technology and medicine in modern history）
Macmillan , St. Martin's Press, 1998
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- : us
Available at 12 libraries
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"in association with Centre for the History of Science Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester"
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: us ISBN 9780312212544
Description
This book discusses the role of industry in the construction of fundamental scientific knowledge. Industrial models of division of labor and industrially-produced instruments and reagents are now central to experimental practices, but they are often perceived as self-evident and this remain invisible. The book examines the effect of the longstanding association between industry and fundamental scientific research through an analysis of case studies taken from the history of physics, chemistry and biomedical sciences in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These case-studies highlight the role of industrial methods in the production of standardized instruments and reagents which made possible the stabilization and the diffusion of locally-produced knowledge, and its influence as a provider of new organizational patterns and new division of labor within science.
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: uk ISBN 9780333647530
Description
Industrial methods, and industrially produced instruments, reagents and living organisms are central to research activities today. They play a key role in the homogenization and the diffusion of laboratory practices, thus in their transformation into a stable and unproblematic knowledge about the natural world. This book displays the - frequently invisible - role of industry in the construction of fundamental scientific knowledge through the examination of case studies taken from the history of nineteenth and the twentieth century physics, chemistry and biomedical sciences.
Table of Contents
- Notes on the Contributors General Introduction PART 1: TOOLS AND RESEARCH MATERIALS, THE INDUSTRIALIST AS PRODUCER Introduction Part 1 An Old Hand in a New System: Brewing Culture in Jame's Joule Heat Measurements
- H. Sibum Sealing Wax and Strings, Plasticine and Valves: Industry, Instrumentation and the Emergence of Nuclear Physics
- J. Hughes Instrument Hierarchies: Laboratories, Industry and Divisions of Labour
- T. Shinn Theory from Practice: Portraying the Constitution of Synthetic Dyestuffs in the 1860s
- T. Travis Can it Ever be Pure Science? Pharmaceuticals, the Pharmaceutical Industry, and Biomedical Research in the 20th Century
- J. Goodman PART 2: STANDARDIZING TOOLS, OPERATORS AND PRACTICE: THE INDUSTRIALIST AS REGULATOR Introduction Instruments, Scientists, Industrialists and the Specificity of Influence: The Case of RCA and Biological Electron Microscopy
- N. Rasmussen Disciplining Cancer: Mice and the Practice of Genetic Purity - Ilana Lowy & Jean-Paul Gaudilliere Interlaboratory Life: Regulating Flow Cytometry
- Peter Keating & Alberto Cambrosio PART 3: ORGANIZATION OF RESEARCH AND POLICY: THE INDUSTRIALIST AS MANAGER Introduction Industrial R&D and Its Influence on the Organisation and Management of the Production of Knowledge in the Public Sector
- V. Walsh Shifting Boundaries between Industry and Science: the Role of WHO in Contraceptive R N. Oudshoorn Index
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