Full name: Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts

Author: Bruno Latour Year: 1979 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science, Philosophy Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads Barns&Noble LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780691028323 069102832X

This highly original work presents laboratory science in a deliberately skeptical way: as an anthropological approach to the culture of the scientist. Drawing on recent work in literary criticism, the authors study how the social world of the laboratory produces papers and other "texts,"' and how the scientific vision of reality becomes that set of statements considered, for the time being, too expensive to change. The book is based on field work done by Bruno Latour in Roger Guillemin's laboratory at the Salk Institute and provides an important link between the sociology of modern sciences and laboratory studies in the history of science. Similar books: Science in Action by Bruno Latour The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan Hyperspace by Michio Kaku The Seven Mysteries of Life by Guy Murchie A Universe from Nothing by Lawrence M. Krauss The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose The Hidden Reality by Brian Greene The Extended Phenotype by Richard Dawkins The Future of Life by Edward O. Wilson The Logic of Scientific Discovery by Karl Popper Quantum Enigma by Bruce Rosenblum The Stuff of Thought by Steven Pinker Warped Passages by Lisa Randall Modern Physics and Ancient Faith by Stephen M. Barr Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom Gaia by James E. Lovelock Science as Salvation by Mary Midgley Uncommon Sense by Alan Cromer From Eternity to Here by Sean Carroll