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Science Studies Bibliography

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>De : 	Ian Pitchford[SMTP:Ian.Pitchford@SCIENTIST.COM]
>Répondre à : 	Ian.Pitchford@scientist.com
>Date :	lundi 25 mai 1998 20:24
>A :	SCIENCE-AS-CULTURE@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
>Objet :	Science Studies Bibliography : IMPORTANT
>Importance :	Haute
>
>Ted Hermary of McGill University in Canada has very kindly provided
>me with this brief introductory science studies bibliography.
>Comments, additions and amendments are welcome.
>Ian
>________________________________________________________________
>
>GOOD OVERVIEWS OF "TRENDS" IN THEORY AND RESEARCH,
>     AT DIFFERENT TIMES:
>
>Gooding, David, Trevor Pinch, and Simon Schaffer, ed. 1989. The
>     Uses of Experiment: Studies in the Natural Sciences.
>     Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
>
>Knorr-Cetina, Karin D., and Michael Mulkay, ed. 1983. Science
>     Observed: Perspectives in the Social Study of Science. Oxford:
>     Permagon Press.
>
>Lynch, Michael, and Steve Woolgar, ed. 1988. Representation in
>     Scientific Practice. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
>
>Mulkay, Michael. 1979. Science and the Sociology of Knowledge.
>     London: George Allen & Unwin. [Presumes a bit of sociology.]
>
>Pickering, Andrew, ed. 1992. Science as Practice and Culture.
>     Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
>
>INTEREST THEORY -- THE CONSTRUCTED POINT OF ORIGIN FOR "MODERN"
>     SCIENCE STUDIES
>
>Bloor, David. 1976. Knowledge and Social Imagery. 2nd ed. Chicago:
>     University of Chicago Press.
>
>Barnes, Barry. 1982. T.S. Kuhn and Social Science. New York:
>     Columbia University Press.
>
>WHAT IS A PARADIGM (OR A THOUGHT-STYLE, FOR THAT MATTER)?
>
>Fleck, Ludwick. 1979. Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact.
>     Chicago: University of Chicago Press.  [Yikes!  a sociological
>     scientist!  Also the guy Kuhn ripped off.:-)]
>
>Edge, David O., and Michael J. Mulkay. 1976. Astronomy Transformed:
>     The Emergence of Radio Astronomy in Britain. New York: Wiley.
>     [Closest thing to an in-depth empirical study of Kuhnian
>     ideas.]
>
>Stewart, John. 1990. Drifting Continents and Colliding Paradigms:
>     Perspectives on the Geoscience Revolution. Bloomington, IA:
>     Indiana University Press.
>
>ETHNOGRAPHIC WORKS
>
>Collins, Harry M. 1992. Changing Order: Replication and Induction
>     in Scientific Practice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
>
>Garfinkel, Harold, Michael Lynch, and Eric Livingston. 1981. The
>     Work of a Discovering Science Construed with Materials from
>     the Optically Discovered Pulsar. Philosophy of the Social
>     Sciences 11 (2): 131-158 (Comment: 159-161). [Not for the
>     faint of heart.  Interesting reply.]
>
>Gilbert, G. Nigel, and Michael Mulkay. 1984. Opening Pandora's Box:
>     A Sociological Analysis of Scientists' Discourse. Cambridge:
>     Cambridge University Press.  [More interviews and discourse
>     analysis than observation, but still good.]
>
>Knorr, Karin D. 1981. The Manufacture of Knowledge: An Essay on the
>     Constructivist and Contextual Nature of Science. Oxford:
>     Permagon Press.
>
>Latour, Bruno. 1987. Science in Action. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
>     University Press.
>
>Latour, Bruno, and Steve Woolgar. 1986. Laboratory Life: The
>     Construction of Scientific Facts. Princeton: Princeton
>     University Press.
>
>GOOD HISTORICAL WORKS:
>
>Daston, Lorraine. 1992. Objectivity and the Escape from
>     Perspective. Social Studies of Science 22: 597-618.
>
>Shapin, Steven, and Simon Schaffer. 1985. Leviathan and The
>     Air-Pump:  Hobbes, Boyle and the Experimental Life. Princeton:
>     Princeton University Press.
>
>Star, Susan Leigh. 1989. Regions of the Mind: Brain Research and
>     the Quest for Scientific Certainty. Stanford, CA: Stanford
>     University Press.
>
>Brannigan, Augustine. 1981. The Social Basis of Scientific
>     Discovery. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
>
>TEXTUAL ANALYSISS
>
>Bazerman, Charles. 1988. Shaping Written Knowledge: The Genre and
>     the Activity of the Experimental Article in Science. Madison:
>     University of Wisconsin Press.
>
>Bensman, Joseph. 1988. The Aesthetics and Politics of Footnoting.
>     International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society 1 (3):
>     443-470.
>
>Myers, Greg. 1990. Writing Biology: Texts in the Social
>     Construction of Scientific Knowledge. Madison: University of
>     Wisconsin Press.  [THE BEST IMO, and VERY easy reading]
>
>FEMINIST WORKS:
>
>Haraway, Donna J. 1989. Primate Visions: Gender, Race and Nature in
>     the World of Modern Science. New York: Routledge.  [Semi-
>     advanced postmodernese]
>Keller, Evelyn Fox. 1985. Reflections on Gender and Science. New
>     Haven: Yale University Press. [Stil the best feminist analysis
>     of science I know of.]
>
>AS MUCH ABOUT TECHNOLOGY AS SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE:
>
>Bijker, Wiebe E., Thomas P. Hughes, and Trevor Pinch, ed. 1987. The
>     Social Construction of Technological Systems:  New Directions
>     in the Sociology and History of Technology. Cambridge, Mass.:
>     MIT Press.  [Introductory Chapter by Bijker on development of
>     bicycle the best, Hughes a close second.]
>
>Collins, Harry M. 1990. Artifical Experts:  Social Knowledge and
>     Intelligent Machines. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
>
>Suchman, Lucy A. 1987. Plans and Situated Actions: The Problem of
>     Human-Machine Interaction. Chicago: University of Chicago
>     Press.
>
>MISCELANEOUS
>
>Bloor, David. 1993. Cognitive Models of Science (Review). Social
>     Studies of Science 23: 743-757.  [A review, I know, but some
>     good thoughts on the limits psychological/ cog science
>     approaches to knowl]
>
>Gieryn, Thomas F. 1983. Boundary-Work and the Demarcation of
>     Science from Non-Science: Strains and Interests in
>     Professional Ideologies of Scientists. American Sociological
>     Review 48 (6): 781-795.
>
>Gieyrn, Thomas F. 1995. Boundaries of Science. In Handbook of
>     Science and Technology Studies, edited by S. Jasonoff, G. E.
>     Markle, J. C. Petersen and T. Pinch. Thousand Oaks, Calif.:
>     Sage Publications.  [How sociologists look at the demarcation
>     question.]
>
>Pinch, T.J., and H.M. Collins. 1984. Private Science and Public
>     Knowledge: The Committee for the Scientific Investigation of
>     the Claims of the Paranormal and Its Use of the Literature.
>     Social Studies of Science 14. [Another view of this, with a
>     juicy, controversial example.]
>
>SCIENCE AND (OR IN) THE PUBLIC
>
>Porter, Theodore M. 1995. Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of
>     Objectivity in Science and Public Life. Princeton: Princeton
>     University Press.
>
>Jasanoff, Sheila. 1987. Contested Boundaries in Policy-Relevant
>     Science. Social Studies of Science 17: 195-230.
>
>Jasanoff, Sheila. 1995. Science at the Bar. Cambridge: Harvard
>     University Press.
>
>
>
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