Bibliography for anthropology of science

Overview

Franklin, Sarah “Science of cultures, cultures of science”. Annual Review of Anthropology, 24 (1995) 162-185

Fischer, MJ “Four Genealogies for a recombinant anthropology of science and technology”, Cultural Anthropology, November 2007 22: 4 539-615

Cassirer, Ernst “The problem of knowledge: philosophy, science and history since Hegel”, Yale 1978

What is STS?

David Hess, 1997. “If you’re thinking of living in STS… A guide for the perplexed,” in Gary Lee Downey and Joseph Dumit, eds, Cyborgs and Citadels: Anthropological Interventions in Emerging Sciences and Technologies, pp. 143-164

Biagiolo, Mario “The Science Studies Reader”, Routledge, 1999

Latour, “Reassembling the social; an introduction to ANT”, OUP 2007

“Science in action: How to follow scientists and engineers through society”, Harvard 1988

Law, John and Hassard, John “Actor Network Theory and After” Wiley-Blackwell 1999

Steven Shapin,“Following Scientists Around” (review of Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers through Society) Social Studies of Science, Vol. 18, No. 3 (Aug., 1988), pp. 533-550

Callon, Michel “Some elements of a sociology of translation: Domesticaton of the scallops and the fishermen of St.BrieucBay”, in Law, John “Power, Action, Belief: A new sociology of knowledge?”, Routledge & Kegan Paul Books Ltd

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Enlightenment

Kant, Immanuel “What is Enlightenment?” (1784)

Foucault, Michel “what is enlightenment?” and “What is critique?” in “The Politics of Truth”, Semiotexte 2007

Cassirer, Ernst “The Philosophy of the Enlightenment”, Princeton, 1968

Rabinow, Paul “Anthropos Today”, Princeton, 2003

Laboratory science

Lynch, Michael “Technical work and critical inquiry: Investigations in a scientific laboratory”, in Social Studies of Science 12 (1982)

Latour, Bruno and Woolgar, steven “Laboratory life: The construction of scientific facts”, Princeton, 1986

Stengers,Isabelle 2000 [1993], “The Invention of Modern Science”, Chapters 1-3 (pp. 3-53).

Galison, Peter and Stump, David “The Disunity of science: Boundaries, Contexts and Power”, Stanford 1996

Galison, Peter “How experiments end”, Chicago, 1987

Rabinow, Paul “Making PCR: A story of biotechnology” Chicago, 1996

“French DNA: Trouble in Pugatory”, Chicago, 1999

Rabinow, Paul andDan-Cohen, TaliaA Machine to Make a Future: Biotech Chronicles, with. Princeton 2004

Nature-culture

Star, Susan Leigh and James R. Griesemer, “Institutional ecology, ‘Translations,’ and Boundary Objects” in Biagioli, “Science Studies Reader”, pp. 505-524.

Callon, Michel, 1986. “Some elements of a sociology of translation” in John Law, ed. “Power, Action and Belief: A New Sociology of Knowledge?”London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, pp. 196-233.

Mitchell, Timothy, 2002. “Can the mosquito speak?” Chapter 2 of Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, pp. 19-53.

Winner, Langdon. 1986. ‘Do Artifacts Have Politics?’ In D. MacKenzie and J. Wacjman, editors, The Social Shaping of Technology, or How the Refrigerator Got Its Hum, pp. 26-38. Milton Keynes: Open University Press.

Haraway, Donna. 1991. “A Cyborg Manifesto,” in Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature, pp. 149-181. New York: Routledge.

Rabinow, Paul. 1996. “Artificiality and enlightenment: from sociobiology to biosociality” in “Essays on the anthropology of reason”,PrincetonNJ: Princeton University Press.

Levi-Strauss, “The Savage Mind”, Chicago, 1968

Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg. "Beyond Nature and Culture: A Note on Medicine in the Age ofMolecular Biology." Science in Context 8, no. 1 (1995): 249-263.

Pauly, Philip. “Controlling Life. Jacques Loeb and the Engineering Ideal in Biology”. Oxford / NewYork: OxfordUniversity Press, 1987

Landecker, Hannah “Culturing life: How cells became technologies”, Harvard 2007

Mode 2

Gibbons, Michael et al, “The New production of knowledge” London: Sage Publications, 1994

Gibbons, Michael. 1999. “Science’s new social contract with society.” Nature 402

Nowotny, Gibbons, and Scott, 2001. “Re-Thinking Science: Knowledge and the Public in an Age of Uncertainty”

Strathern, Marilyn. 2004. “Accountability Across Disciplines” and “Re-Describing Society”, pp. 68-102, in Commons and Borderlands, Oxon: Sean Kingston Publishing.

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Jasanoff, Sheila, “Designs on Nature: Science and Democracy in Europe and the United States”. PrincetonUniversity Press, 2005

Epistemology

Popper,Karl“The Logic of Scientific Discovery.” New York: Harper & Row, 1968

Kuhn, Thomas “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions”,Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962

Canguilhem, Georges“the normal and the pathological”, Zone, 1991

“A vital rationalist”, Zone, 2000

Sociology of Science

Merton, Robert. 1942 [1973] “The Normative Structure of Science” in The Sociology of Science by Robert Merton, pp. 267-78. University of Chicago Press.

Bourdieu, Pierre. 1975 “The Specificity of the Scientific Field and the Social Conditions of the Progress of Reason” Social Science Information Vol. 14 No. 6, reprinted in Biagioli et al, eds. Science Studies Reader, Routledge, 1999.

Woolgar, Steve and Bruno Latour. 1979 [1986]. “Cycles of Credit” in “Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts”

Reproduction and science

Rapp, Rayna “Testing Women Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America”, Routledge 2000

Franklin, Sarah and Roberts, Celia“Born and Made: An Ethnography of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis”Princeton, 2006

Thompson, Charis “Making Parents: The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies” MIT 2007

Activism

Biehl, Joao “Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment”, University of California, 2005

Epstein, Steven “Impure Science: AIDS, Activism and the politics of knowledge”, University of California, 1996

Farmer, Paul “AIDS and accusation: Haiti and the geography of blame” , Universoty of California, 1993

Risk

Luhmann, Niklas “Risk: A sociological theory”, Aldine, 2005

Petryna, Adriana, “Life exposed: biological citizenship after Chernobyl”, Princeton 2002