Sciences and cultures
Subtitle: anthropological and historical studies of the sciences
By: edited by Everett Mendelsohn and Yehuda Elkana.
Contributors: Mendelsohn, Everett.; Elkana, Yehuda, 1934-
Series: Sociology of the sciences ;; v. 5
Publisher: D. Reidel Pub. Co.; Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Boston
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Dordrecht, Holland; Boston; Hingham, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: Science -- Social aspects -- Addresses, essays, lectures
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: title: A programmatic attempt at an anthropology of knowledge / Yehuda Elkana; title: On the boundaries of science in seventeenth-century England / Peter W.G. Wright; title: What should we do with the monster? / Kenneth L. Caneva; title: Science and modern Chinese culture / Peter Buck; title: The meaning context of illness and care / Arthur Kleinman; title: The semantics of medical discourse / Byron J. Good and Mary-Jo Del Vecchio Good; title: The necessity of field methods in the study of scientific research / Robert S. Anderson; title: Anthropological perspectives in the sociology of science / Wolf Lepenies.