Sciences and Cultures Anthropological and Historical Studies of the
Anthropological approaches to the sciences have developed as part of a broader tradition concerned about the place of the sciences in today's world and in some basic sense concerned with questions about the legitimacy of the sciences. In the years since t
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Yearbook 1981
SCIENCES AND CULTURES Anthropological and Historical Studies of the Sciences
Edited by EVERETT MENDELSOHN Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
and YEHUDA ELKANA The Van Leer Jerusalem Foundation, Jerusalem
Theories of what constitutes knowledge, and the sociological debate over its fonnation, are often exclusively concerned with what is interpreted as the content and structure of the sciences. This collection of essays, by contrast, is an experimental approach to the placing of science in its full cultural setting. The mixed disciplines of its authors - history, philosophy, sociology, education, and medicine - have been brought to bear upon an anthropological perspective - at both the empirical and theoretical level - on the sciences and the study of natural phenomena. The authors have pioneered new approaches as they attempt to broaden the appreciation of the historical and cultural role of science in today's world. Audience
This yearbook, which features several essays on the biomedical sciences, will be of interest to sociologists, anthropologists, philosophers and historians concerned with the sciences, biologists, psychologists and the medical profession in general.
SCIENCES AND CULTURES
SOCIOLOGY OF THE SCIENCES A YEARBOOK
Editorial Board: G. Bohme, Technische Hochschule, Darmstadt N. Elias, University of Bielefeld Y. Elkana, The Van Leer Jerusalem Foundation, Jerusalem L. Graham, Massachusetts Institute of Technology R. Krohn, McGill University, Montreal W. Lepenies, Free University ofBerlin H. Martins, University of Oxford E. Mendelsohn, Harvard University H. Nowotny, European Centre for Social Welfare Training and Research, Vienna H. Rose, University of Bradford Claire Salomon-Bayet, University ofParis P. Weingart, University ofBielefeld R. D. Whitley, Manchester Business School, University ofManchester
Managing Editor: R. D. Whitley
VOLUME V - 1981
SCIENCES AND CULTURES Anthropological and Historical Studies of the Sciences
Edited by
EVERETT MENDELSOHN Harvard University, Dept. of the History of Science, Cambridge, Mass.
and
YEHUDA ELKANA The Van Leer Jerusalem Foundation, Jerusalem
D. REIDEL PUBLISHING COMPANY DORDRECHT: HOLLAND I BOSTON: U.S.A. LONDON: ENGLAND
librai)' of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under title:
Sciences and cultures. (Sociology of the sciences; v.5) Includes bibliographies and index. Contents: Introduction - A programmatic attempt at an anthropology of knowledge I Yehuda Elkana - On the boundaries of science in seventeenthcentury England I Peter W. G. Wright - What should we do with the monster? I Kenneth L. Caneva - [etc. ] 1. Science - Social aspects - Address, essays, lectures. I. Mendelsohn, Everett. II. Elkana, Yehuda, 1934. III. Series. QI75.55.S3 303.4'83 81-2531 ISBN-13: 978-90-277-1235-6 e-ISBN-13: 978-94-009-8429-5 DOl: 10.1007/978-94-009-8429-5
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