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  • - Social Studies of Knowledge Practices
    av John Law
    311 - 1 122,-

    Asks what is meant by complexity and how it might be handled within knowledge practices without generating a chaos of further complexities.

  • - Science, Society, and Becoming
     
    1 294,-

    Argues for a re-conceptualization of research practice as a "mangle," an open-ended, evolutionary, and performative interplay of human and non-human agency. This title aims to extend the mangle's reach by exploring its application across a range of fields including history, philosophy, sociology, geography, and environmental studies.

  • - Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives
     
    1 075,-

    A comparison of the use of model systems and exemplary cases across fields in the natural and social sciences.

  • - Re-reading the Molecular Paradigm
     
    1 194,-

    Explores the debate on the biological significance and cultural meaning of genes in the development of organisms - the molecular paradigm

  • - Historical Perspectives on Recent Science
     
    1 122,-

    Addresses a shift in the hierarchy of scientific explanations

  • - Ontology in Medical Practice
    av Annemarie Mol
    271 - 1 102,-

    Drawing on fieldwork in a Dutch university hospital, this title looks at the day-to-day diagnosis and treatment of atherosclerosis. It focuses on medical anthropology, sociology, feminist theory, philosophy, and science and technology studies to reframe such issues as the disease-illness distinction, subject-object relations, and boundaries.

  • - New Essays on Second-Order Systems Theory
     
    298,-

    Explores the cultural legacy of cybernetics and neocybernetics that offers new insight on the role of the human in an era of the posthuman.

  • - New Essays on Second-Order Systems Theory
     
    1 129,-

    Explores the cultural legacy of cybernetics and neocybernetics that offers new insight on the role of the human in an era of the posthuman.

  • - Science, Society, and Becoming
     
    369,-

    Offering an introduction to the mangle, this book presents empirical studies that demonstrate the mangle's applicability to topics as diverse as pig farming, Chinese medicine, economic theory and domestic-violence policing.

  • - Re-reading the Molecular Paradigm
     
    329,-

    Explores the debate on the biological significance and cultural meaning of genes in the development of organisms - the molecular paradigm

  • av John Kadvany
    329 - 1 194,-

    Presenting a reconstruction of ideas from the history of philosophy, science, and mathematics, this work shows that embedded in Lakatos's work is a historical philosophy rooted in his Hungarian past. It reveals that he introduced transformations of Hegelian and Marxist ideas about historiography, skepticism, criticism, and rationality.

  • av Philip Mirowski
    355 - 1 241,-

    A compilation of essays by the author that reveals the value for science studies of examples arising within the history of economics

  • - A Systems View of the Biology-Culture Divide
    av Susan Oyama
    300 - 1 075,-

    Elaborates on author's pioneering work on developmental systems by spelling out that work's implications for the fields of evolutionary theory, developmental and social psychology, feminism, and epistemology.

  • - Blood, Organs, and Cell Lines in Late Capitalism
    av Robert Mitchell & Catherine Waldby
    284 - 1 075,-

    Surveys the economies of exchange in human blood, tissues, and organs. This book compares tissue economies in the United Kingdom and United States. It features a series of case studies based on particular forms of tissue exchange and also considers the impact of different models of biotechnology patents on tissue economies.

  • - Historical Perspectives on Recent Science
     
    329,-

    Addresses a shift in the hierarchy of scientific explanations

  • - Observatories and Astronomy in Nineteenth-Century Science and Culture
     
    324,-

    A collection exploring the place of the observatory in nineteenth-century science, culture.

  • - Observatories and Astronomy in Nineteenth-Century Science and Culture
     
    1 194,-

    A collection exploring the place of the observatory in nineteenth-century science, culture.

  • - Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives
     
    298,-

    A comparison of the use of model systems and exemplary cases across fields in the natural and social sciences.

  • - Developmental Systems and Evolution
    av Susan Oyama
    328 - 1 075,-

    Argues compellingly that nature and nurture are not alternative influences on human development but, rather, developmental products and the developmental processes that produce them. This title shows that what developmental information" does depends on what is already in place and what alternatives are available.

  • av E. Roy Weintraub
    311 - 1 122,-

    Discusses the history of 20th century economics, and how it has become dominated by mathematical approaches.

  • - Decentering the Object in Technoscience
    av John Law
    298 - 1 129,-

    Tells "stories" about a British attempt to build a military aircraft - the TSR2. Offering numerous insights into the way we theorise the working of systems, this title explores the overlaps between singularity and multiplicity and reveals rich new meaning in such concepts as oscillation, interference, fractionality, and rhizomatic networks.

  • - Plurality and Synthesis
    av Volker G. Scheid
    340 - 1 315,-

    If Chinese medicine is "traditional," why has it not disappeared with the rest of traditional Chinese society? What is the secret to Chinese medicine's remarkable adaptability that has allowed it to prosper for more than 2000 years? This title deals with these questions.

  • av Bruno Latour
    315 - 1 003,-

    Building on his earlier book We Have Never Been Modern, Bruno Latour develops his argument about the Modern fetishization of facts, or the creation of factishes.

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