From order to disorder
An anthropologist visits the laboratory
The construction of a fact : the case of TRF(H)
The microprocessing of facts
Cycles of credit
The creation of order out of disorder

This highly original work presents laboratory science in a deliberately skeptical way: as an anthropological approach to the culture of the scientist. Drawing on recent work in literary criticism, the authors study how the social world of the laboratory produces papers and other "texts", and how the scientific vision of reality becomes that set of statements considered, for the time being, too expensive to change. The book is based on field work done by Bruno Latour in Roger Guillemin's laboratory at the Salk Institute and provides an important link between the sociology of modern sciences and laboratory studies in the history of science. Bruno Latour is Associate Professor at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines in Paris. Steve Woolgar is lecturer in sociology at Brunei University

Woolgar, Steve
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