Title:	Latour, Bruno og Woolgar, Steve (1986 (1979)): Laboratory Life. The Contruction of Scientific Facts. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press
Authors:	Jonas Salk, M.D.
Keywords:	Laboratory Life. The Contruction
Issue Date:	1986
Publisher:	by Princeton University Press
Description:	In reading this book about my colleagues who have been observed under a sociologist's microscope, I realized how "scientific" a study of science could be when viewed by an outsider who felt impelled to imitate the scientific approach he observed. The authors' tools and concepts are crude and qualitative, but their will to understand scientific work is consistent with the scientific ethos. Their courage, and even brashness, in this undertaking reminds me of many scientific endeavors in which nothing stands in the way of the pursuit of an inquiry. This kind of objective observation by an outsider of scientists at work, as if they were a colony of ants or of rats in a maze, could be unbearable. However, this seems not to be so, and for me the most interesting part of the work and of its outcome, is that Bruno Latour, a philosopher-sociologist, began a sociological study of biology and
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/32186
ISBN:	0-691-09418-7
Appears in Collections:	Building Construction

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