Technoscientific imaginaries : conversations, profiles, and memoirs / George E. Marcus, editor. - ix, 560 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. - Late editions, 2 1070-8987 ; . - Late editions ; 2. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Cornucopions of History: A Memoir of Science and the Politics of Private Lives -- Eye(I)ing the Sciences and Their Signifiers (Language, Tropes, Autobiographers): InterViewing for a Cultural Studies of Science and Technology -- Twenty-first-Century PET: Looking for Mind and Morality through the Eye of Technology -- Medicine on the Edge: Conversations with Oncologists -- Reflections on Fieldwork in Alameda -- Innocence and Awakening: Cyberdammerung at the Ashibe Research Laboratory -- The World of Industry-University-Government: Reimagining R&D as America -- Trust but Verify: Science and Policy Negotiating Nuclear Testing Treaties - Interviews with Roger Eugene Hill -- Becoming a Weapons Scientist -- Rehabilitating Science, Imagining "Bhopal" -- Of Beets and Radishes: Desovietizing Lithuanian Science -- Andrzej Staruszkiewicz, Physicist -- Bachigai (Out of Place) in Ibaraki: Tsukuba Science City, Japan -- Bitter Faiths -- Confabulating Jurassic Science -- Insurgent Urbanism: Interactive Architecture and a Dialogue with Craig Hodgetts -- Kith and Kin in Borderlands -- Imagining In-formation: The Complex Disconnections of Computer Networks -- Contributors -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18.

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Scientists--Interviews
Engineers--Interviews
Science--Social aspects--Miscellanea

Q141 / .T43 1995

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