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Sciences and Cultures

Anthropological and Historical Studies of the Sciences

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  • © 1981

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Editors:
  1. Everett Mendelsohn

    1. Dept. of the History of Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

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  2. Yehuda Elkana

    1. The Van Leer Jerusalem Foundation, Jerusalem, Israel

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Part of the book series: Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook (SOSC, volume 5)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages N2-xvii
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  2. A Programmatic Attempt at an Anthropology of Knowledge

    • Yehuda Elkana
    Pages 1-76

  3. On the Boundaries of Science in Seventeenth-Century England

    • Peter W. G. Wright
    Pages 77-100

  4. What Should We do with the Monster? Electromagnetism and the Psychosociology of Knowledge

    • Kenneth L. Caneva
    Pages 101-131

  5. Science and Modern Chinese Culture

    • Peter Buck
    Pages 133-160

  6. The Meaning Context of Illness and Care: Reflections on a Central Theme in the Anthropology of Medicine

    • Arthur Kleinman
    Pages 161-176

  7. The Semantics of Medical Discourse

    • Byron J. Good, Mary-Jo Del Vecchio Good
    Pages 177-212

  8. The Necessity of Field Methods in the Study of Scientific Research

    • Robert S. Anderson
    Pages 213-244

  9. Anthropological Perspectives in the Sociology of Science

    • Wolf Lepenies
    Pages 245-261

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 263-270
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About this book

Anthropological approaches to the sciences have developed as part of a broader tradition concerned about the place of the sciences in today's world and in some basic sense concerned with questions about the legitimacy of the sciences. In the years since the second World War, we have seen the emergence of a number of different attempts both to analyze and to cope with the successes of the sciences, their broad penetration into social life, and the sense of problem and crisis that they have projected. Among the of movements concerned about the earlier responses were the development social responsibility of scientists and technological practitioners. There is little doubt that this was a direct outgrowth of the role of science in the war epitomized by the successful construction and catastrophic use of the atomic bomb. The recognition of the deep social utility of science, and especially its role as an instrument of war, fostered curiosity about the earlier develop­ ment of scientific disciplines and institutional forms. The history of science as an explicit diSCipline with full-time practitioners can be seen as an attempt to locate science in temporal space - first in its intellectual form and second­ ly in its institutional or social form. The sociology of science, while certainly having roots in the pre-war work of Robert K.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dept. of the History of Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

    Everett Mendelsohn

  • The Van Leer Jerusalem Foundation, Jerusalem, Israel

    Yehuda Elkana

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Sciences and Cultures

  • Book Subtitle: Anthropological and Historical Studies of the Sciences

  • Editors: Everett Mendelsohn, Yehuda Elkana

  • Series Title: Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8429-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1981

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1234-9Published: 31 July 1981

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1235-6Published: 31 July 1981

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-8429-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0167-2320

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1796

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 270

  • Topics: Cultural History

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