Epistemic cultures: how the sciences make knowledge
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- A Note on Transcription -- 1 Introduction -- 2 What Is a Laboratory? -- 3 Particle Physics and Negative Knowledge -- 4 Molecular Biology and Blind Variation -- 5 From Machines to Organisms: Detectors as Behavioral and Social Beings -- 6 From Organisms to Machines: Laboratories as Factories of Transgenics -- 7 HEP Experiments as Post-Traditional Communitarian Structures -- 8 The Multiple Ordering Frameworks of HEP Collaborations -- 9 The Dual Organization of Molecular Biology Laboratories -- 10 Toward an Understanding of Knowledge Societies: A Dialogue -- Notes -- References -- Index