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Book SynopsisHow have shifts in power and in assumptions about knowledge affected scientific practice? Who controls the new technologies, and how are moral and professional issues addressed during a time of global change? This work explores such questions of relevance in the current scientific climate.
Table of ContentsIntroduction by George E. Marcus 1: Cornucopions of History: A Memoir of Science and the Politics of Private Lives Livia Polanyi 2: Eye(I)ing the Sciences and Their Signifiers (Language, Tropes, Autobiographers): InterViewing for a Cultural Studies of Science and Technology Michael M. J. Fischer 3: Twenty-first-Century PET: Looking for Mind and Morality through the Eye of Technology Joseph Dumit 4: Medicine on the Edge: Conversations with Oncologists Mary-Jo Del Vecchio Good, Irene Kuter, Simon Powell, Herbert C. Hoover, Jr., Maria E. Carson, Rita Linggood. 5: Reflections on Fieldwork in Alameda Paul Rabinow 6: Innocence and Awakening: Cyberdammerung at the Ashibe Research Laboratory Allucquere Rosanne Stone 7: The World of Industry-University-Government: Reimagining R&D as America 197 Gary Lee Downey 8: Trust but Verify: Science and Policy Negotiating Nuclear Testing Treaties - Interviews with Roger Eugene Hill Diana L. L. Hill 9: Becoming a Weapons Scientist Hugh Gusterson 10: Rehabilitating Science, Imagining "Bhopal" Kim Laughlin 11: Of Beets and Radishes: Desovietizing Lithuanian Science Kathryn Milun(aitis) 12: Andrzej Staruszkiewicz, Physicist Leszek Koczanowicz 13: Bachigai (Out of Place) in Ibaraki: Tsukuba Science City, Japan Sharon Traweek 14: Bitter Faiths Kathleen Stewart 15: Confabulating Jurassic Science Mario Biagioli 16: Insurgent Urbanism: Interactive Architecture and a Dialogue with Craig Hodgetts James Holston 17: Kith and Kin in Borderlands Gudrun Klein 18: Imagining In-formation: The Complex Disconnections of Computer Networks527 Christopher Pound Contributors Index
