Handling Digital Brains

Morana Alac

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• An analysis of how fMRI researchers actively involve their bodies--with hand movements in particular--in laboratory practice. The results of fMRI brai... Lees meer

Velvet Revolution at the Synchrotron

Park Doing

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• Change in scientific practice and its implications for the status of scientific claims, examined through an analysis of three episodes at a synchrotro... Lees meer

Beyond Imported Magic

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• Studies challenging the idea that technology and science flow only from global North to South. The essays in this volume study the creation, adaptatio... Lees meer

Pedagogy and the Practice of Science

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• Studies examining the ways in which the training of engineers and scientists shapes their research strategies and scientific identities. Pedagogy and ... Lees meer

Far-Fetched Facts

Richard Rottenburg

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• A fictionalized ethnographic study of development aid in sub-Saharan Africa that focuses on technologies of inscription in the interactions of develop... Lees meer

Patently Contestable

Stathis Arapostathis, Graeme Gooday

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• An examination of the fierce disputes that arose in Britain in the decades around 1900 concerning patents for electrical power and telecommunications.... Lees meer

Vulnerability in Technological Cultures

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• Analysis and case studies explore the concept of vulnerability, offering a novel and broader approach to understanding the risks and benefits of scien... Lees meer

Ignorance and Surprise

Matthias Gross

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• The relationship between ignorance and surprise and a conceptual framework for dealing with the unexpected, as seen in ecological design projects. Ign... Lees meer

Instrumental Community

Cyrus C M Mody

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• How networked structures of collaboration and competition within a community of researchers led to the invention, spread, and commercialization of sca... Lees meer

Structures of Scientific Collaboration

Wesley Shrum, Joel Genuth, Ivan Chompalov

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• How technology and bureaucracy shape collaborative scientific research projects: an empirical study of multiorganizational collaboration in the physic... Lees meer

Good Science

Charis Thompson

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• An examination of a decade and a half of political controversy, ethical debate, and scientific progress in stem cell research. After a decade and a ha... Lees meer

Arguments That Count

Rebecca Slayton

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• How differing assessments of risk by physicists and computer scientists have influenced public debate over nuclear defense. In a rapidly changing worl... Lees meer

The Global Biopolitics of the IUD

Chikako Takeshita

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• The biography of a multifaceted technological object, the IUD, illuminates how political contexts shaped contraceptive development, marketing, use, an... Lees meer