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Osiris, Volume 10

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Providing a review of current controversies, emerging agendas and recent research in the history of science, these essays are organized to consider such themes as knowledge and values, gender or authorship; knowledge constructed by discipline, chronology or geography; and knowledge in related fields.;Contributors include:

  • Lorraine Daston on the moral economy of science
  • Evelyn Fox Keller on gender in science
  • Sally Gregory Kohlstedt on women in science
  • David C. Lindberg on medieval science and its religious context
  • Shigeru Nakayama on East Asian science
  • Daniel J. Kevles and Gerald L. Geison on the modern experimental life sciences
  • Joan L. Richards on mathematics and the human mind
  • Nancy J. Nersessian on cognitive science and history of science
  • John Harley Warner on history of science and the sciences of medicine
  • Thomas Nickles on philosophy of science and history of science
  • and Stephen Brush on scientists as historians

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ISBN: 9780226793764
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Author: Arnold Thackray
Publisher: University of Chicago Press Journals
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 300 pages
Series: Osiris
Genres: History of science

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