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This classic MUP text discusses the historical development of science, technology and medicine in Western Europe and North America from the Renaissance to the present. Combining theoretical discussion and empirical illustration, it redefines the geography of science, technology and medicine.

Table of Contents

1. Ways of Knowing
2. World-readings: the meanings of nature and science
3. Natural History
4. Analysis and rationalism of production
5. The elements of bodies, earth and society
6. Experimentalism and invention
7. Invention and the technoscientific complexes
8. Technoscience and public understandings: the British case c.2000

Ways of Knowing A New History of Science

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 12/28/2000 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719059940, 978-0719059940
      ISBN10: 0719059941

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This classic MUP text discusses the historical development of science, technology and medicine in Western Europe and North America from the Renaissance to the present. Combining theoretical discussion and empirical illustration, it redefines the geography of science, technology and medicine.

      Table of Contents

      1. Ways of Knowing
      2. World-readings: the meanings of nature and science
      3. Natural History
      4. Analysis and rationalism of production
      5. The elements of bodies, earth and society
      6. Experimentalism and invention
      7. Invention and the technoscientific complexes
      8. Technoscience and public understandings: the British case c.2000

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