Ways of Knowing

Ways of Knowing: A New History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Hardcover – April 15, 2001

Author: Visit Amazon's John V. Pickstone Page | Language: English | ISBN: 0226667944 | Format: PDF, EPUB

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Ways of Knowing: A New History of Science, Technology, and Medicine – April 15, 2001
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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.

About the Author

John V. Pickstone is director of the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine and the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at the University of Manchester. He has edited or coedited a number of books, most recently Medicine in the Twentieth Century (with Roger Cooter), and has written widely on the history of biomedical sciences, medicine, and science in Britain, and on medical innovations and policy.

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• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press (April 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0226667944
• ISBN-13: 978-0226667942
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,078,024 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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