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Cultural boundaries of science : credibility on the line
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Cultural boundaries of science : credibility on the line

Author: Thomas F Gieryn
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©1999.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Thomas F Gieryn
ISBN: 0226292614 9780226292618 0226292622 9780226292625
OCLC Number: 39108606
Description: xiv, 398 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction: Contesting Credibility Cartographically --
1. John Tyndall's Double Boundary-Work: Science, Religion, and Mechanics in Victorian England --
2. The U.S. Congress Demarcates Natural Science and Social Science (Twice) --
3. May the Best Science Win: Competition for the Chair of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh, 1836 --
4. The (Cold) Fusion of Science, Mass Media, and Politics --
5. Hybridizing Credibilities: Albert and Gabrielle Howard Compost Organic Waste, Science, and the Rest of Society --
Epilogue: Home to Roost: "Science Wars" as Boundary-Work.
Responsibility: Thomas F. Gieryn.
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