{"product_id":"cultures-without-culturalism-9780822363729","title":"Cultures without Culturalism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume models a new path where historicized and cultural accounts of scientific practice retain their specificity and complexity without falling into the traps of cultural essentialism, examining issues that range from the history of quadratic equations in China to the studying of employment discrimination in the social sciences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This wide-ranging and thought-provoking collection of essays from leading historians and philosophers of science focuses on how culture informs the study of the history of science....  Although intended for an audience of historians and philosophers of science, as well as social and cultural historians, the book will also be a valuable resource for science studies, anthropology, feminist studies, and a host of other academic specialties concerned with epistemology or historiography.... Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above; researchers and faculty.\" -- T. Timmons * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Cultures without Culturalism\u003c\/i\u003e is an important work in the history, sociology, and philosophy of science. The book does a service to our field by advancing the discussions on scientific cultures, a long-standing topic, to a level that closely engages current historiography and scholarship.\" -- Chen-Pang Yeang * East Asian Science, Technology and Society *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \/ Karine Chemla and Evelyn Fox Keller  1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Stating the Problem: Cultures without Culturation\u003cbr\u003e 1. On Invokcing \"Culture\" in the Analysis of Behavior in Financial Markets \/ Donald MacKenzie  29\u003cbr\u003e 2. Cultural Difference and Sameness: Historiographic Reflections on Histories of Physics in Modern Japan \/ Kenji Ito  49\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Cultural Politics of an African AIDS Vaccine: The Vanhivax Controversy in Cameroon, 2001-2011 \/ Guillaume Lachenal  69\u003cbr\u003e 4. Worrying about Essentialism: From Feminist Theory to Epistemological Cultures \/ Evelyn Fox Keller  99\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Distinguishing the Many Dimensions of Encultured Practice\u003cbr\u003e 5. Hybrid Devices: Embodiments of Culture in Biomedical Engineering \/ Nancy J. Nesessian  117\u003cbr\u003e 6. Glass Ceilings and Sticky Floors: Drawing New Ontologies \/ Mary S. Morgan  145\u003cbr\u003e 7. Modes of Exchange: The Culture and Politics of Public Demonstrations \/ Claude Rosental  170\u003cbr\u003e 8. Styles in Mathematical Practice \/ David Rabouin  196\u003cbr\u003e Part III. The Making of Scientific Cultures\u003cbr\u003e 9. Historicizing Culture: A Revaluation of Early Modern Science and Culture \/ Koen Vermeir  227\u003cbr\u003e 10. From Quarry to Paper: Cuvier's Three Epistemological Cultures \/ Bruno Belhoste  250\u003cbr\u003e 11. Cultures of Experimentation \/ Hans-Jörg Rheinberger  278\u003cbr\u003e 12. The People's War against Earthquakes: Cultures of Mass Science in Mao's China \/ Fa-ti Fan  296\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. What Is at Stake?\u003cbr\u003e 13.\u003ci\u003e E Uno Plures\u003c\/i\u003e? Unity and Diversity in Galois Theory, 1832-1900 \/ Caroline Ehrhardt  327\u003cbr\u003e 14. Changing Mathematical Cultures, Conceptual History, and the Circulation of Knowledge: A Case Study Based on Mathematical Sources from Ancient China \/ Karine Chemla  352\u003cbr\u003e Contributors  399\u003cbr\u003e Index  403","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406102372695,"sku":"9780822363729","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822363729.jpg?v=1730494536","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cultures-without-culturalism-9780822363729","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}