Pandora's hope : Essays on the reality of science studies / B. Latour
Imprint
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999
Descript
x, 324p. : ill. ; 23 cm
CONTENT
"Do You Believe in Reality?" News from the Trenches of the Science Wars -- Circulating Reference: Sampling the Soil in the Amazon Forest -- Science's Blood Flow: An Example from Joliot's Scientific Intelligence -- From Fabrication to Reality: Pasteur and His Lactic Acid Ferment -- The Historicity of Things: Where Were Microbes before Pasteur? -- A Collective of Humans and Nonhumans: Following Daedalus's Labyrinth -- The Invention of the Science Wars: The Settlement of Socrates and Callicles -- A Politics Freed from Science: The Body Cosmopolitic -- The Slight Surprise of Action: Facts, Fetishes, Factishes Conclusion: What Contrivance Will Free Pandora's Hope?