The mangle of practice : time, agency, and science /

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Author / Creator:Pickering, Andrew.
Imprint:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©1995.
Description:1 online resource (281 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11244805
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ISBN:9780226668253
0226668258
0226668029
9780226668024
0226668037
9780226668031
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-273) and index.
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Summary:This ambitious book by one of the most original and provocative thinkers in science studies offers a sophisticated new understanding of the nature of scientific, mathematical, and engineering practice and the production of scientific knowledge. Andrew Pickering offers a new approach to the unpredictable nature of change in science, taking into account the extraordinary number of factors--social, technological, conceptual, and natural--that interact to affect the creation of scientific knowledge. In his view, machines, instruments, facts, theories, conceptual and mathematical structures, discipli.
Other form:Print version: Pickering, Andrew. Mangle of practice. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©1995 0226668029

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