Historical Studies of Science as if It Was Produced by People with Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture, and Society, and Struggling for Credibility and Authority
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Köp båda 2 för 562 krWhat makes his essays so enjoyable and alive... is their leaping range of reference, always running one step ahead and urging us to catch up. -- Jenny Uglow New York Review of Books 2010 Professor Shapin has a sense of humor, a good eye for an anecdote and the ability to turn a phrase. -- Katherine Bouton New York Times 2010 While it might not be for novices, anyone who is interested in how and why science enjoys a privileged position as a source of knowledge should read Shapin's take on the authority given to it vis-a-vis religion and morality, why it is compliment to be both a gentleman and a scholar, and why it matters whether Newton ate chicken or Darwin farted. Seed Magazine 2010 An impressive work and one that scientists will benefit from reading. Shapin reminds us that... neither scientists nor science itself can be separated from the context of peoples' minds, bodies, cultures, societies. Expectations based on any other understanding are simply unrealistic. -- Sam Lemonick Chemical and Engineering News 2010 He is a graceful and engaging essayist, and the ample selection of essays in Never Pure ... affords an excellent basis for reflecting on what he has had to say about the life of science. -- Robert E. Kohler Science 2010 Never Pure will enrich the bookshelf of any historian of science. -- Katy Barrett Endeavour 2010
Steven Shapin is the Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard, and his books include Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life (with Simon Schaffer), A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England, and The Scientific Revolution. He has written for the New Yorker and writes regularly for the London Review of Books.
Preface 1. Lowering the Tone in the History of Science: A Noble Calling Part I: Methods and Maxims 2. Cordelia's Love: Credibility and the Social Studies of Science 3. How to Be Antiscientific 4. Science and Prejudice in Historical Perspective Part II: Places and Practices 5. The House of Experiment in Seventeenth-century England 6. Pump and Circumstance: Robert Boyle's Literary Technology Part III: The Scientific Person 7. "The Mind Is Its Own Place": Science and Solitude in Seventeenth-century England 8. "A Scholar and a Gentleman": The Problematic Identity of the Scientific Practitioner in Seventeenth-century England 9. Who Was Robert Hooke? 10. Who Is the Industrial Scientist? Commentary from Academic Sociology and from the Shop Floor in the United States, ca. 1900ca. 1970 Part IV: The Body of Knowledge and the Knowledge of Body 11. The Philosopher and the Chicken: On the Dietetics of Disembodied Knowledge 12. How to Eat Like a Gentleman: Dietetics and Ethics in Early Modern England Part V: The World of Science and the World of Common Sense 13. Trusting George Cheyne: Scientific Expertise, Common Sense, and Moral Authority in Early Eighteenth-century Dietetic Medicine 14. Proverbial Economies: How an Understanding of Some Linguistic and Social Features of Common Sense Can Throw Light on More Prestigious Bodies of Knowledge, Science for Example 15. Descartes the Doctor: Rationalism and Its Therapies Part VI: Science and Modernity 16. Science and the Modern World Notes Index