Cultural boundaries of science : credibility on the line / Thomas F. Gieryn.
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TextPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1999]Copyright date: ©1999Description: xiv, 398 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0226292622
- 9780226292625
- 0226292614
- 9780226292618
- 303.483
- Q175.5. G54 1999
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-381) and index.
Preface -- Introduction: Contesting Credibility Cartographically -- 1. John Tyndall's Double Boundary-Work: Science, Religion, and Mechanics in Victorian England -- 2. The U.S. Congress Demarcates Natural Science and Social Science (Twice) -- 3. May the Best Science Win: Competition for the Chair of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh, 1836 -- 4. The (Cold) Fusion of Science, Mass Media, and Politics -- 5. Hybridizing Credibilities: Albert and Gabrielle Howard Compost Organic Waste, Science, and the Rest of Society -- Epilogue: Home to Roost: "Science Wars" as Boundary-Work -- Bibliography of Secondary Works -- Index.
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