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Laboratory Life: The Social Construction of Scientific Facts is a 1979 book by sociologists of science Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar. This influential book in the field of science studies presents an anthropological study of Roger Guillemin's scientific laboratory at the Salk Institute. It advances a number of observations regarding how ...
Latour is best known for his books We Have Never Been Modern (1991; English translation, 1993), Laboratory Life (with Steve Woolgar, 1979) and Science in Action (1987). [10] Although his studies of scientific practice were at one time associated with social constructionist [ 10 ] approaches to the philosophy of science, Latour diverged ...
Latour challenges the traditional understanding of the economy as a purely objective, quantitative, and value-free science in the book. He believes that this view fails to consider the relationships between humans and nonhumans, and argues that traditional economic measures value solely in terms of economic growth and productivity, ignoring the increasing social and ecological costs of these ...
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Science in Action (book) Science In Society; Science, Order, and Creativity; Scientific Memoirs; Scientologie, Wissenschaft von der Beschaffenheit und der Tauglichkeit des Wissens; The Sea Around Us; Six-legged Soldiers; The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History; The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe (book) Sleepers, Wake! The Social Contract ...
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Laboratory life: The construction of scientific facts. 2nd Edition. Princeton: Princeton University Press. (not an SSK-book, but has a similar approach to science studies) Latour, B. (1987). Science in action : how to follow scientists and engineers through society. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
The Pasteurization of France is split into two sections: the first section ("War and Peace") is a history of the development and adoption of Pasteur's germ theory while the second ("Irreductions") is a theoretical work, structured into numbered clauses and elaborations, which presents an early version of actor-network theory.