Sciences and cultures : anthropological and historical studies of the sciences / edited by Everett Mendelsohn and Yehuda Elkana

Published:: Dordrecht, Holland ; Boston : D. Reidel Pub. Co., [1981]
Hingham, MA : Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Boston.
Copyright Date:: ©1981
Physical Description:: xvii, 270 pages ; 23 cm.
Additional Creators:: Mendelsohn, Everett and Elkana, Yehuda, 1934-2012

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Series:

Sociology of the sciences ; v. 5.

Contents:

A programmatic attempt at an anthropology of knowledge / Yehuda Elkana -- On the boundaries of science in seventeenth-century England / Peter W.G. Wright -- What should we do with the monster? / Kenneth L. Caneva -- Science and modern Chinese culture / Peter Buck -- The meaning context of illness and care / Arthur Kleinman -- The semantics of medical discourse / Byron J. Good and Mary-Jo Del Vecchio Good -- The necessity of field methods in the study of scientific research / Robert S. Anderson -- Anthropological perspectives in the sociology of science / Wolf Lepenies.

Subject(s):

Science—Social aspects

ISBN:

9027712344
9027712352 (pbk.)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographies and index.

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