Technoscientific imaginaries : conversations, profiles, and memoirs / George E. Marcus, editor
Imprint
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1995
Descript
ix, 560 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
CONTENT
Scientists, families, and friends: Cornucopions of history ; Eye(I)ing the sciences and their signifiers (Language, tropes, autobiographers) -- Mind, body, and science: Twenty-first-century PET ; Medicine on the edge -- Science, Inc.: Reflections on fieldwork in Alameda ; Innocence and awakening -- Arms and the scientist: Trust but verify ; Becoming a weapons scientist -- Science and the hope of nations: Of beets and radishes ; Andrzej Staruszkiewicz, physicist -- Science beheld: Bitter faiths ; Confabulating jurassic science -- Discussions: Excerpts from the collective editorial meeting -- Look backward -- Look forward