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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: INTERPRETATION AND EXPLANATION -- ASPECTS OF WEBER'S INTELLECTUAL FIELD 1 -- WEBER'S ADAPTATION OF RICKERT 2 -- SINGULAR CAUSAL ANALYSIS 3 -- INTERPRETATION AND EXPLANATION 4 -- OBJECTIVITY AND VALUE NEUTRALITY 5 -- FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE 6 -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

"For Durkheim, sociology was by no means a realm of knowledge closed in its specificity. It was rather an open science, permeable to contributions coming from other disciplines. For him, the task of sociology was to study what held societies together and to provide a place for reflective change and progressive development"--

1. Paradigms and Programmes -- 2. Give Me a Laboratory and I Will Rewrite Science -- 3. Inside a Scientific Laboratory: An Ethnography of Scientific Practice -- 4. The Invention of Science: An Orientalist Perspective -- 5. The Sociology of Objectivity -- 6. Social Construction: The Fundamental Theorem -- 7. Wild Men and Winnowers: Donald T. Campbell -- 8. Cavaliers And Pointillists: Steve Woolgar -- 9. Surely, You're Joking, Bruno Latour? -- 10. Science East & West: Joseph Needham -- 11. Dangerous Abstractions: STS and The Unabomber -- 12. The Yin And Yang Of Scientific Practice: Philosophers and Sociologists -- 13. Requiem for Plato: The Sociology of Mathematics -- 14. Your Social Brain: Searching for Mind and Consciousness in John Wayne's America -- 15. Romancing & Dancing with Robots -- 16. Sustainable Journeys: Daedalus, Icarus, Tantalus and The Future of Science and the World -- 17. Post-Truthism: An Era or an Intellectual Strategy? -- 18. Conclusion: Paradigm For The Sociology of Knowledge.

Addresses the history of harm reduction. It evaluates the consequences and constraints, stakes and costs of the policy of needle exchange for the purposes of harm prevention and health research. Vitellone situates the syringe at the centre of empirical research and theoretical analysis, challenging existing accounts of drug injecting which treat the syringe as a dead device that simply facilitates social action between humans. Instead, this book complicates the relationship between human and object - injecting drug user and syringe - to ask what happens if we see the object as an intra-active part of the sociality that constitutes injecting practices.