Evolution's Eye

Susan Oyama

• Paperback | Engels | Science and Cultural Theory
• In recent decades, Susan Oyama and her colleagues in the burgeoning field of developmental systems theory have rejected the determinism inherent in th... Lees meer

The Effortless Economy of Science?

Philip Mirowski

• Paperback | Engels | Science and Cultural Theory
• A leading scholar of the history and philosophy of economic thought, Philip Mirowski argues that there has been a top-to-bottom transformation in how ... Lees meer

The Male Pill

Nelly Oudshoorn

• Paperback | Engels | Science and Cultural Theory
• The Male Pill is the first book to reveal the history of hormonal contraceptives for men. Nelly Oudshoorn explains why it is that, although the techni... Lees meer

The Body Multiple

Annemarie Mol

• Paperback | Engels | Science and Cultural Theory
• The Body Multiple is an extraordinary ethnography of an ordinary disease. Drawing on fieldwork in a Dutch university hospital, Annemarie Mol looks at ... Lees meer

Genes in Development

• Paperback | Engels | Science and Cultural Theory
• In light of scientific advances such as genomics, predictive diagnostics, genetically engineered agriculture, nuclear transfer cloning, and the manipu... Lees meer

Emergence and Embodiment

• Paperback | Engels | Science and Cultural Theory
• Emerging in the 1940s, the first cybernetics-the study of communication and control systems-was mainstreamed under the names artificial intelligence a... Lees meer

How Economics Became a Mathematical Science

E Roy Weintraub

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• In How Economics Became a Mathematical Science E. Roy Weintraub traces the history of economics through the prism of the history of mathematics in the... Lees meer

The Heavens on Earth

• Paperback | Engels | Science and Cultural Theory
• The Heavens on Earth explores the place of the observatory in nineteenth-century science and culture. Astronomy was a core pursuit for observatories, ... Lees meer

The Ontogeny of Information

Susan Oyama

• Paperback | Engels | Science and Cultural Theory
• The Ontogeny of Information is a critical intervention into the ongoing and perpetually troubling nature-nurture debates surrounding human development... Lees meer

On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods

Bruno LaTour

• Paperback | Engels | Science and Cultural Theory
• On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods continues the project that the influential anthropologist, philosopher, and science studies theorist Bruno Lato... Lees meer

Scandalous Knowledge

Barbara Herrnstein Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Science and Cultural Theory
• Throughout the recent culture and science "wars," the radically new conceptions of knowledge and science emerging from such fields as the history and ... Lees meer

Aircraft Stories

John Law

• Paperback | Engels | Science and Cultural Theory
• In Aircraft Stories noted sociologist of technoscience John Law tells "stories" about a British attempt to build a military aircraft-the TSR2. The int... Lees meer

The Mangle in Practice

• Paperback | Engels | Science and Cultural Theory
• In The Mangle of Practice (1995), the renowned sociologist of science Andrew Pickering argued for a reconceptualization of research practice as a "man... Lees meer

Complexities

• Paperback | Engels | Science and Cultural Theory
• Although much recent social science and humanities work has been a revolt against simplification, this volume explores the contrast between simplicity... Lees meer

Tissue Economies

Robert Mitchell

• Paperback | Engels | Science and Cultural Theory
• As new medical technologies are developed, more and more human tissues-such as skin, bones, heart valves, embryos, and stem cell lines-are stored and ... Lees meer

Science without Laws

• Paperback | Engels | Science and Cultural Theory
• Physicists regularly invoke universal laws, such as those of motion and electromagnetism, to explain events. Biological and medical scientists have no... Lees meer