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  • The Body Multiple

    Ontology in Medical Practice

    by Annemarie Mol, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, E. Roy Weintraub ...
    Series series Science and Cultural Theory
    The Body Multiple is an extraordinary ethnography of an ordinary disease. Drawing on fieldwork in a Dutch university hospital, Annemarie Mol looks at the day-to-day diagnosis and treatment of atherosclerosis. A patient information leaflet might describe atherosclerosis as the gradual obstruction of the arteries, but in hospital practice this one medical condition appears to be many other things. ... Read more

    $28.59 CAD

  • How Economics Became a Mathematical Science

    by E. Roy Weintraub, Barbara Herrnstein Smith ...
    Series series Science and Cultural Theory
    In How Economics Became a Mathematical Science E. Roy Weintraub traces the history of economics through the prism of the history of mathematics in the twentieth century. As mathematics has evolved, so has the image of mathematics, explains Weintraub, such as ideas about the standards for accepting proof, the meaning of rigor, and the nature of the mathematical enterprise itself. He also shows how ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China

    Plurality and Synthesis

    by Volker Scheid, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, E. Roy Weintraub ...
    Series series Science and Cultural Theory
    As a traditional healing art that has established a contemporary global presence, Chinese medicine defies categories and raises many interesting questions. If Chinese medicine is "traditional," why has it not disappeared with the rest of traditional Chinese society? If, as some claim, it is a science, what does that imply about what we call science? What is the secret of Chinese medicine's ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Mangle in Practice

    Science, Society, and Becoming

    by Barbara Herrnstein Smith, E. Roy Weintraub, Adrian Franklin ...
    Series series Science and Cultural Theory
    In The Mangle of Practice (1995), the renowned sociologist of science Andrew Pickering argued for a reconceptualization of research practice as a “mangle,” an open-ended, evolutionary, and performative interplay of human and non-human agency. While Pickering’s ideas originated in science and technology studies, this collection aims to extend the mangle’s reach by exploring its application across a ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Imre Lakatos and the Guises of Reason

    by John Kadvany, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, E. Roy Weintraub ...
    Series series Science and Cultural Theory
    The Hungarian émigré Imre Lakatos (1922–1974) earned a worldwide reputation through the influential philosophy of science debates involving Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend, and Sir Karl Popper. In Imre Lakatos and the Guises of Reason John Kadvany shows that embedded in Lakatos’s English-language work is a remarkable historical philosophy rooted in his Hungarian past. Below the surface of his life as ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Provocative Joan Robinson

    The Making of a Cambridge Economist

    by Nahid Aslanbeigui, Guy Oakes, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, E. Roy Weintraub ...
    One of the most original and prolific economists of the twentieth century, Joan Robinson (1903–83) is widely regarded as the most important woman in the history of economic thought. Robinson studied economics at Cambridge University, where she made a career that lasted some fifty years. She was an unlikely candidate for success at Cambridge. A young woman in 1930 in a university dominated by men, ... Read more

    $31.89 CAD

  • Finding Equilibrium

    Arrow, Debreu, McKenzie and the Problem of Scientific Credit

    by Till Düppe, E. Roy Weintraub ...
    The remarkable story and personalities behind one of the most important theories in modern economicsFinding Equilibrium explores the post–World War II transformation of economics by constructing a history of the proof of its central dogma—that a competitive market economy may possess a set of equilibrium prices. The model economy for which the theorem could be proved was mapped out in 1954 by ... Read more

    $58.29 CAD

  • Science without Laws

    Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives

    by Barbara Herrnstein Smith, E. Roy Weintraub ...
    Series series Science and Cultural Theory
    Physicists regularly invoke universal laws, such as those of motion and electromagnetism, to explain events. Biological and medical scientists have no such laws. How then do they acquire a reliable body of knowledge about biological organisms and human disease? One way is by repeatedly returning to, manipulating, observing, interpreting, and reinterpreting certain subjects—such as flies, mice, ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Growing Explanations

    Historical Perspectives on Recent Science

    by Barbara Herrnstein Smith, E. Roy Weintraub, Peter Galison, Amy Dahan Dalmedico ...
    Series series Science and Cultural Theory
    For much of the twentieth century scientists sought to explain objects and processes by reducing them to their components—nuclei into protons and neutrons, proteins into amino acids, and so on—but over the past forty years there has been a marked turn toward explaining phenomena by building them up rather than breaking them down. This collection reflects on the history and significance of this ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • A Contemporary Historiography of Economics

    Edited by Till Düppe, E. Roy Weintraub ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
    In recent years, the focus of historians of economic thought has changed to also include the ideas and practices of contemporary economists. This has opened up new questions regarding the utilization of sources, choice of method, narrative styles, and ethical issues, as well as a new awareness of the historian’s place, role, and task.This book brings together leading contributors to provide, for ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD

  • Complexities

    Social Studies of Knowledge Practices

    by Barbara Herrnstein Smith, E. Roy Weintraub ...
    Series series Science and Cultural Theory
    Although much recent social science and humanities work has been a revolt against simplification, this volume explores the contrast between simplicity and complexity to reveal that this dichotomy, itself, is too simplistic. John Law and Annemarie Mol have gathered a distinguished panel of contributors to offer—particularly within the field of science studies—approaches to a theory of complexity, ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Evolution's Eye

    A Systems View of the Biology-Culture Divide

    by Susan Oyama, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, E. Roy Weintraub ...
    Series series Science and Cultural Theory
    In recent decades, Susan Oyama and her colleagues in the burgeoning field of developmental systems theory have rejected the determinism inherent in the nature/nurture debate, arguing that behavior cannot be reduced to distinct biological or environmental causes. In Evolution’s Eye Oyama elaborates on her pioneering work on developmental systems by spelling out that work’s implications for the ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD