Epistemic Cultures : : How the Sciences Make Knowledge / / Karin Knorr Cetina.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
• VerfasserIn: Knorr Cetina, Karin,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Acknowledgments --; Contents --; A Note on Transcription --; 1 Introduction --; 2 What Is a Laboratory? --; 3 Particle Physics and Negative Knowledge --; 4 Molecular Biology and Blind Variation --; 5 From Machines to Organisms: Detectors as Behavioral and Social Beings --; 6 From Organisms to Machines: Laboratories as Factories of Transgenics --; 7 HEP Experiments as Post-Traditional Communitarian Structures --; 8 The Multiple Ordering Frameworks of HEP Collaborations --; 9 The Dual Organization of Molecular Biology Laboratories --; 10 Toward an Understanding of Knowledge Societies: A Dialogue --; Notes --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674039681; 9783110442212
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674039681?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Karin Knorr Cetina.

The first ethnographic study to systematically compare two different scientific laboratory cultures--that of high-energy physics and molecular biology--in order to examine how epistemic cultures form distinct bases for knowledge.