Ecologies of Knowledge: Work and Politics in Science and Technology

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Ecologies of Knowledge provides a comprehensive overview of issues relating to work, politics, and the latest perspectives on the role of materials, feminism, "nonhumans," and work practices as shaping scientific and technical knowledge. In addition to theoretical contributions, the authors cover biotechnology, computing, representations and space, aerospace engineering, and a variety of ethical perspectives and controversies in these domains.
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Overview

Ecologies of Knowledge provides a comprehensive overview of issues relating to work, politics, and the latest perspectives on the role of materials, feminism, "nonhumans," and work practices as shaping scientific and technical knowledge. In addition to theoretical contributions, the authors cover biotechnology, computing, representations and space, aerospace engineering, and a variety of ethical perspectives and controversies in these domains.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780791425664
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • Publication date: 7/28/1995
  • Series: SUNY Series in Science, Technology, and Society
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Pages: 421
  • Product dimensions: 5.99 (w) x 9.07 (h) x 0.94 (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction 1
1 Science, Social Problems, and Progressive Thought: Essays on the Tyranny of Science 39
2 The Politics of Formal Representations: Wizards, Gurus, and Organizational Complexity 88
3 Computerization Movements and the Mobilization of Support for Computerization 119
4 Representation, Cognition, and Self: What Hope for an Integration of Psychology and Sociology? 154
5 Research Materials and Reproductive Science in the United States, 1910-1940 183
6 Laboratory Space and the Technological Complex: An Investigation of Topical Contextures 226
7 Mixing Humans and Nonhumans Together: The Sociology of a Door-Closer 257
8 Engineering and Sociology in a Military Aircraft Project: A Network Analysis of Technological Change 281
9 Ecologies of Action: Recombining Genes, Molecularizing Cancer, and Transforming Biology 302
Bibliography 347
Contributors 405
Index 409
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