Nigel Gilbert, Michael Mulkay, G. Nigel Gilbert

Opening Pandora's Box

A Sociological Analysis of Scientists' Discourse

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book proposes a fresh approach to sociological analysis and, in particular, to the analysis of scientific culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 352g
• ISBN-13: 9780521274302
• ISBN-10: 0521274303
• Artikelnr.: 26936706

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Preface
1. Scientists' discourse as a topic
2. A possible history of the field
3. Contexts of scientific discourse
4. Accounting for error
5. The truth will out
6. Constructing and deconstructing consensus
7. Working conceptual hallucinations
8. Joking apart
9. Pandora's bequest
Notes
Index.