Ways of Knowing

Ways of Knowing: A New History of Science, Technology, and Medicine [Paperback]

Author: John V. Pickstone | Language: English | ISBN: 0226667952 | Format: PDF, EPUB

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In Ways of Knowing, John V. Pickstone provides a new and accessible framework for understanding science, technology, and medicine (STM) in the West from the Renaissance to the present. Pickstone's approach has four key features. First, he synthesizes the long-term histories and philosophies of disciplines that are normally studied separately. Second, he dissects STM into specific ways of knowing—natural history, analysis, and experimentalism—with separate but interlinked elements. Third, he explores these ways of knowing as forms of work related to our various technologies for making, mending, and destroying. And finally, he relates scientific and technical knowledges to popular understandings and to politics.

Covering an incredibly wide range of subjects, from minerals and machines to patients and pharmaceuticals, and from experimental physics to genetic engineering, Pickstone's Ways of Knowing challenges the reader to reexamine traditional conceptualizations of the history, philosophy, and social studies of science, technology, and medicine.

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• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press (April 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0226667952
• ISBN-13: 978-0226667959
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,074,940 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

I had expected this book to go beyond science ways of knowing. The conventional use of "Ways of Knowing" goes far beyond science, whereas book is much more limited; the book should have had a different name. In what it does cover, it is fine.

By Gene E. Willeke

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