Overview
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Bernward Joerges
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Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, (WZB), Germany
Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
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Terry Shinn
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Sociology and History of Science, CNRS/GEMAS, Paris, France
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Part One
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- Bernward Joerges, Terry Shinn
Pages 1-13
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Origins of the Research-Technology Community
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Interstitial Worlds
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- Patricia Nevers, Raimund Hasse, Rainer Hohlfeld, Walther Zimmerli
Pages 97-118
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Purviews of Generic Instruments
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Front Matter
Pages 119-119
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Standardized Languages
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Front Matter
Pages 197-197
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In Conclusion
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Front Matter
Pages 239-239
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- Bernward Joerges, Terry Shinn
Pages 241-248
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Back Matter
Pages 249-272
About this book
these. In this book, we appropriate their conception of research-technology, and ex tend it to many other phenomena which are less stable and less localized in time and space than the Zeeman/Cotton situation. In the following pages, we use the concept for instances where research activities are orientated primarily toward technologies which facilitate both the production of scientific knowledge and the production of other goods. In particular, we use the tenn for instances where instruments and meth ods· traverse numerous geographic and institutional boundaries; that is, fields dis tinctly different and distant from the instruments' and methods' initial focus. We suggest that instruments such as the ultra-centrifuge, and the trajectories of the men who devise such artefacts, diverge in an interesting way from other fonns of artefacts and careers in science, metrology and engineering with which students of science and technology are more familiar. The instrument systems developed by re search-technologists strike us as especially general, open-ended, and flexible. When tailored effectively, research-technology instruments potentially fit into many niches and serve a host of unrelated applications. Their multi-functional character distin guishes them from many other devices which are designed to address specific, nar rowly defined problems in a circumscribed arena in and outside of science. Research technology activities link universities, industry, public and private research or me trology establishments, instrument-making finns, consulting companies, the military, and metrological agencies. Research-technology practitioners do not follow the career path of the traditional academic or engineering professional.
Editors and Affiliations
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Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, (WZB), Germany
Bernward Joerges
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Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Bernward Joerges
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Sociology and History of Science, CNRS/GEMAS, Paris, France
Terry Shinn
