Author: Lenoir, Timothy
Title: Instituting Science: The Cultural Production of Scientific Disciplines
Description: Stanford [CA], Stanford University Press, (1997). orig.cloth. 24x16cm, xiii,353 pp. Textual tables.. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: Practice, Reason, Context: The Dialogue Between Theory & Experiment; The Discipline of Nature and the Nature of Disciplines; Social Interests & the Organic Physics of 1847; Science for the Clinic: Science Policy & the Formation of Carl Ludwig's Institute in Leipzig; The Politics of Vision: Optics, Painting & Ideology in Germany, 1845-95; A Magic Bullet:Research for Profit & the Growth of Knowledge in Germany Around 1900; Practical Reason & the Construction of Knowledge: The Lifeworld of Haber- Bosch; Instrument Makers & Discipline Builders. The Case of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.

Keywords: History of Science, Sociology, Institution, Institutional, Disciplines, University, Higher Education, ,