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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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