John Law / Annemarie Mol

Complexities

Social Studies of Knowledge Practices
Herausgeber: Law, John; Mol, Annemarie

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Extremely timely, important, and well-defined, this book is precisely on target in focusing on heterogeneous studies that treat knowledge as local. The types of science and technology discussed are diverse and well-balanced."--David Stump, coeditor of "The Disunity of Science: Boundaries, Contests, and Power"

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 161mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 649g
• ISBN-13: 9780822328315
• ISBN-10: 0822328313
• Artikelnr.: 22262225

Autorenporträt

John Law is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for Science Studies at Lancaster University in England. Annemarie Mol is Professor of Political Philosophy at Twente University in the Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

Complexities: An Introduction / Annemarie Mol and John Law
Romantic and Baroque Conceptions of Complex Wholes in the Sciences /
Chunglin Kwa
Which Road to Follow? The Moral Complexity of an “Equipped” Humanity /
Laurent Thevenot
On Space and Depth / Marilyn Strathern
On Hidden Heterogeneities: Complexity, Formalism, and Aircraft Design /
John Law
In the Middle of the Network / Andrew Barry
When Elephants Stand for Competing Philosophies of Nature: Amboseli
National Park, Kenya / Charis Thompson
Writing and (Re)writing Devices as Tools for Managing Complexity / Michel
Callon
Cutting Surgeons, Walking Patients: Some Complexities Involved in Comparing
/ Annemarie Mol
The Disposal of Fear: Childhood, Trauma, and Complexity / Nick Lee and
Steven D. Brown
Contributors
Index