Ways of knowing
a new history of science, technology and medicine
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Author
Publication
2000 - Manchester University Press, Manchester, England
Language
English
Word Count
67,750 words, Guess
Page Count
271 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100719059933
- ISBN-100719059941
- ISBN-139780719059933
- ISBN-139780719059940
- Goodreads3188666', '3188664
and 5 more
- LibraryThing1373112
- OCLC Control Number46393774
- Better World Books9780719059933
- Better World Books9780719059940
- Open LibraryOL21094892M
Classifications
- DDC509
- LCCQ125 .P595 2000
Description
This text provides an accessible framework for understanding science, technology, and medicine (STM) in the West from the Renaissance to the 21st-century. John V. Pickstone's approach has four key features. First, he synthesizes the long-term histories and philosophies of disciplines that are normally studied separately. Second, he dissects STM into specific ways of knowing - natural history, analysis, and experimentalism - with separate but interlinked elements. Third, he explores these ways of knowing as forms of work related to our various technologies for making, mending, and destroying. And finally, he relates scientific and technical knowledges to popular understandings and to politics. Covering a wide range of subjects, from minerals and machines to patients and pharmaceuticals, and from experimental physics to genetic engineering, Pickstone's "Ways of Knowing" challenges the reader to re-examine traditional conceptualizations of the history, philosophy, and social studies of science, technology, and medicine.
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