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Never Pure

Name: Never Pure
Brand: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9780801894213
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JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESSISBN: 9780801894213

Historical Studies of Science as if It Was Produced by People with Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture, and Society, and Struggling for Credibility and Authority

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By Steven Shapin
Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: August 14, 2010
Format: PAPERBACK
Pages: 568

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Steven Shapin argues that science, for all its immense authority and power, is and always has been a human endeavor, subject to human capacities and limits. Put simply, science has never been pure. To be human is to err, and we understand science better when we recognize it as the laborious achievement of fallible, imperfect, and historically situated human beings.Shapins essays collected here include reflections on the historical relationships between science and common sense, between science and modernity, and between science and the moral order. They explore the relevance of physical and social settings in the making of scientific knowledge, the methods appropriate to understanding science historically, dietetics as a compelling site for historical inquiry, the identity of those who have made scientific knowledge, and the means by which science has acquired credibility and authority.This wide ranging and intensely interdisciplinary collection by one of the most distinguished historians and sociologists of science represents some of the leading edges of change in the scholarly understanding of science over the past several decades.

Preface

1. Lowering the Tone in the History of Science: A Noble Calling

Part I: Methods and Maxims

2. Cordelias Love: Credibility and the Social Studies of Science

3. How to Be Antiscientific

4. Science and Prejudice in Historical Perspective

Part II: Places and Practices

5. The House of Experiment in Seventeenth-century England

6. Pump and Circumstance: Robert Boyles Literary Technology

Part III: The Scientific Person

7. ""The Mind Is Its Own Place"": Science and Solitude in Seventeenth-century England

8. ""A Scholar and a Gentleman"": The Problematic Identity of the Scientific Practitioner in Seventeenth-century England

9. Who Was Robert Hooke?

10. Who Is the Industrial Scientist? Commentary from Academic Sociology and from the Shop Floor in the United States, ca. 1900ca. 1970

Part IV: The Body of Knowledge and the Knowledge of Body

11. The Philosopher and the Chicken: On the Dietetics of Disembodied Knowledge

12. How to Eat Like a Gentleman: Dietetics and Ethics in Early Modern England

Part V: The World of Science and the World of Common Sense

13. Trusting George Cheyne: Scientific Expertise, Common Sense, and Moral Authority in Early Eighteenth-century Dietetic Medicine

14. Proverbial Economies: How an Understanding of Some Linguistic and Social Features of Common Sense Can Throw Light on More Prestigious Bodies of Knowledge, Science for Example

15. Descartes the Doctor: Rationalism and Its Therapies

Part VI: Science and Modernity

16. Science and the Modern World

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