John V. Pickstone

Ways of Knowing

A new history of science, technology and medicine

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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. -- .

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 378g
• ISBN-13: 9780719059940
• ISBN-10: 0719059941
• Artikelnr.: 22320395

Autorenporträt

Professor John Pickstone founded Manchester University 's Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM) and the Manchester Histories Festival

Inhaltsangabe

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