Crafting Science: A Sociohistory of the Quest for the Genetics of Cancer
Crafting Science: A Sociohistory of the Quest for the Genetics of Cancer Books
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During the late 1970s and 1980s, “cancer” underwent a remarkable transformation. In one small decade, what had long been a set of heterogeneous diseases marked by abandoned cell growth became a disease of our genes. How this happened and what it means is the tale Joan Fujimura tells in a rare surrounded by look at the way science works and knowledge is made. A dramatic study of a new species of scientific revolution, this book combines a detailed ethnography of scientific plotting, an in-depth account of science practiced and produced, a history of one branch of science as it entered the limelight, and a view of the impact of new genetic technologies on science and society.
The scientific enterprise that Fujimura unfolds for us is proto-oncogene cancer research–the study of those segments of DNA now plotting to make normal cells cancerous. Within this framework, she describes the processes of knowledge construction as a social enterprise, an endless run of negotiations in which theories, material technologies, and practices are co-constructed, incorporated, and refashioned. By the side of the way, Fujimura addresses long-standing questions in the history and philosophy of science, culture theory, and sociology of science: How do scientists make “excellent” problems, experiments, and solutions? What are the cultural, institutional, and material technologies that have to be in place for new truths and new practices to succeed?
Portraying the development of knowledge as a multidimensional administer conducted through multiple cultures, institutions, actors, objects, and practices, this book disrupts divisions among sociology, history, anthropology, and the philosophy of science, technology, and medicine.
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