Sciences and cultures : anthropological and historical studies of the sciences /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Mendelsohn, Everett, Elkana, Yehuda, 1934-2012
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht, Holland ; Boston : D. Reidel Pub. Co. ; [1981]
Series:Sociology of the sciences ; v. 5.
Subjects:
Table of 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.