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    Title
    Laboratory Life
    Subtitle
    The Construction of Scientific Facts
    Authors and contributors
    By (author) Bruno Latour, By (author) Steve Woolgar, Edited by Jonas Salk
    Physical properties
    Format: Paperback
    Number of pages: 296
    Width: 140 mm
    Height: 222 mm
    Thickness: 20 mm
    Weight: 355 g
    Audience
    College/higher education
    General/trade
    Professional and scholarly
    Language
    English
    ISBN
    ISBN 13: 9780691028323
    ISBN 10: 069102832X
    Classifications
    BISAC category code: SCI008000
    BISAC category code: SOC002000
    Dewey: 306.45
    LC classification: QH315.L315
    Nielsen BookScan Product Class: S7.0
    BIC subject category: PD
    Edition statement
    Reprint
    Publisher
    Princeton University Press
    Imprint name
    Princeton University Press
    Publication date
    01 September 1986
    Publication City/Country
    New Jersey/US
    Review quote
    The pioneering 'laboratory study' in the sociology of scientific knowledge... The first and, deservedly, the most influential book-length account of day-to-day work in a single laboratory setting. ISIS Laboratory Life succeeds and will continue to succeed, and to win friends and allies, because it contains good, persuasive ideas, such as the analyses of modalities and of splitting. These ideas have been generated by excellent social scientists. All the rest is so much window undressing. -- H. M. Collins Isis Eight years after Laboratory Life first came out, it is still one of my favourite books on the social studies of science... [F]or those in the business of reflecting on the nature of science who have not yet read Laboratory Life, here is a good opportunity to catch up and do so. -- Ditta Bartels Metascience
    Main description
    This highly original work presents laboratory science in a deliberately skeptical way: as an anthropological approach to the culture of the scientist. Drawing on recent work in literary criticism, the authors study how the social world of the laboratory produces papers and other "texts,"' and how the scientific vision of reality becomes that set of statements considered, for the time being, too expensive to change. The book is based on field work done by Bruno Latour in Roger Guillemin's laboratory at the Salk Institute and provides an important link between the sociology of modern sciences and laboratory studies in the history of science.