The Invisible Industrialist : Manufacture and the Construction of Scientific Knowledge
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
033364753X
ISBN-13
9780333647530
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 30th, 1998
Print length
379 Pages
Product Classification:
Social & cultural historyIndustry & industrial studiesIndustry and industrial studiesSocial and cultural historyIndustrial applications of scientific research & technological innovationIndustrial applications of scientific research and technological innovationHistory of science
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This book displays the - frequently invisible - role of industry in the construction of fundamental scientific knowledge through the examination of case studies taken from the history of nineteenth and the twentieth century physics, chemistry and biomedical sciences.
Industrial methods, and industrially produced instruments, reagents and living organisms are central to research activities today. They play a key role in the homogenization and the diffusion of laboratory practices, thus in their transformation into a stable and unproblematic knowledge about the natural world. This book displays the - frequently invisible - role of industry in the construction of fundamental scientific knowledge through the examination of case studies taken from the history of nineteenth and the twentieth century physics, chemistry and biomedical sciences.
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