The Science Studies Reader

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Summary: Hoax? Hardly!
Review: Actually, I just read Biagioli's collection, and the review below does seem most accurate. Some of the puzzles were quite complex; and the texture of the paper was outstanding. Bravo Lady Bracknell. A review worth reading! And bravo Mario. Your children should be proud.

Rating:
Summary: Hoax? Hardly!
Review: Actually, I just read Biagioli's collection, and the review below does seem most accurate. Some of the puzzles were quite complex; and the texture of the paper was outstanding. Bravo Lady Bracknell. A review worth reading! And bravo Mario. Your children should be proud.

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Summary: The other review is a hoax
Review: Biagioli has done it again! First, the colorfully covered "Galileo, Courtier" taught us all what it means to be alone. And now, with a green and yellow combination, Biagioli teaches us that important lesson we've probably all forgotten by the time we're on our third divorce - of course I mean, it's alright to cry, crying is what makes us people. Laymen and scholar alike will find hours of entertainment in this witty collection of aphorisms and uncut jigsaw puzzles. I know my toddler and I did. Ciao, Winthrop

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Summary: A Stunning Montage of Color and Verve!
Review: Biagioli has done it again! First, the colorfully covered "Galileo, Courtier" taught us all what it means to be alone. And now, with a green and yellow combination, Biagioli teaches us that important lesson we've probably all forgotten by the time we're on our third divorce - of course I mean, it's alright to cry, crying is what makes us people. Laymen and scholar alike will find hours of entertainment in this witty collection of aphorisms and uncut jigsaw puzzles. I know my toddler and I did. Ciao, Winthrop

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Summary: Excellent collection
Review: Highly recommended for anyone who wants a very readable and broad introduction to what STS is about and what the key issues of contention are/were. The essays are choice picks for the most part.

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Summary: It's Not Football!
Review: The green and Yellow Cover suggests it's about a not very good football club from England. Chirp Chirp. I couldn't find any football in it at all - this was dosappointing!

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Summary: The other review is a hoax
Review: The other review is a hoax! Lady Bracknell is a character in a play by Oscar Wilde. You dummies!

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Summary: For Release: February 16, 1999
Review: the Science Studies reader Mario Biagioli, editor

THE SCIENCE STUDIES READER (Routledge; February 16, 1999; A Trade Paperback Original), edited by Mario Biagioli, is a landmark anthology of writing in the burgeoning field of Science Studies. Society and the scientific community are today engaging more thoughtfully than ever the question of what "scientific knowledge" might actually be. This collection of writings by some of the most prominent thinkers in the field speaks to the nature of science and knowledge across time, cultures, and genders.

The Reader focuses on the practices of modern and contemporary science and technology located in different national and institutional settings. Here are essays on the gender dimensions of science; the moral economies of scientific communities; imaging techniques; modes of communication; international and cross-disciplinary cooperation; dynamics of controversies and their closure; intellectual property and authorship; the role of instruments; bodily experiments; and many other currently exciting subjects. The collection presents science as crucially connected to and tangled in a web of history, sociology, anthropology, gender studies and cultural studies of science.

By mapping some of the open questions and points of tension likely to occupy the field for years to come, the reader casts fresh light on what "science" means at the end of the twentieth century. Collecting the founding articles of Science Studies all in one place, for the first time, and with an accessible introduction by Mario Biagioli, THE SCIENCE STUDIES READER is essential reading for anyone interested in science and technology. There is simply nothing else like it.

CONTRIBUTORS: Karen Barad, Mario Biagioli, Pierre Bourdieu, Robert M. Brain, Michel Callon, Sande Cohen, H.M. Collins, Lorraine Daston, Arnold Davidson, Peter Galison, James Griesemer, Ian Hacking, Donna J. Haraway, Roger Hart, Thomas Hughes, Lily Kay, Evelyn Fox Keller, Robert Kohler, Bruno Latour, John Law, Timothy Lenoir, Geoffrey Lloyd, Michael Lynch, Donald MacKenzie, Emily Martin, Andrew Pickering, Theodore Porter, Paul Rabinow, Hans Jorg Rheinberger, Brian Rotman, Joseph Rouse, Simon Schaffer, Steven Shapin, Susan Leigh Star, Sharon Traweek, Sherry Turkle, M. Norton Wise, Alison Wylie

MARIO BIAGIOLI: is Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. He previously taught at UCLA (where he directed the Center for the Cultural Studies of Science), Stanford, and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. He is the author of Galileo Courtier (1993) and of numerous articles on early modern science, Nazi Science, science museums, and on scientific authorship that have appeared in Critical Inquiry, Isis, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science Annales, History of Science, and Actes de la Recherche en Science Sociales. With support from a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, he is currently working at a book on the author function in contemporary science.

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Summary: White Elephant or Sacred Cow?: Take Your Pick
Review: This is the book that has gathered together all the most annoying people in science studies -- especially the ones who flog the dead horse of 'practise'without considering the larger social and political contexts that have made the Science Wars such a hot issue. I would advise so-called Science Warriors looking for an easy target to look no further than this arboreal sacrifice. Everyone else: check out David Hess's introduction to science studies for something more reasonable and Steve Fuller's book on Kuhn for something really challenging.