Instituting science
Subtitle: cultural production of scientific disciplines
By: Timothy Lenoir.
Series: Writing science
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Stanford, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
Description: "This book offers case studies that reexamine certain critical junctures in the traditional historical picture of the evolution of the role of the scientist in modern Western society. It focuses especially on the establishment of new disciplines within German research universities in the nineteenth century, the problematic relationship that emerged between science, industry, and the state at the turn of the twentieth century, and post-World War II developments in science and technology."--BOOK JACKET.