Never Pure: Historical Studies of Science as If It Was Produced by People with Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture, and Society, and Struggling for Credibility and Authority
Johns Hopkins University Press (2010)
| Abstract | Steven Shapin argues that science, for all its immense authority and power, is and always has been a human endeavor, subject to human capacities and limits. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Science Social aspects Science History | |||||||||
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| Call number | Q175.5.S465 2010 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 0801894204 0801894212 9780801894206 9780801894213 | |||||||||
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