β Scribed by Jean-Paul Gaudilliere, Ilana Lowy (eds.)
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
This book discusses the role of industry in the construction of fundamental scientific knowledge. Industrial models of division of labor and industrially-produced instruments and reagents are now central to experimental practices, but they are often perceived as self-evident and this remain invisible. The book examines the effect of the longstanding association between industry and fundamental scientific research through an analysis of case studies taken from the history of physics, chemistry and biomedical sciences in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These case-studies highlight the role of industrial methods in the production of standardized instruments and reagents which made possible the stabilization and the diffusion of locally-produced knowledge, and its influence as a provider of new organizational patterns and new division of labor within science.
Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
General Introduction....Pages 3-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-22
An Old Hand in a New System....Pages 23-57
Plasticine and Valves: Industry, Instrumentation and the Emergence of Nuclear Physics....Pages 58-101
Instrument Hierarchies: Laboratories, Industry and Divisions of Labour....Pages 102-121
Theory from Practice: Portraying the Constitution of Synthetic Dyestuffs in the 1860s....Pages 122-142
Can it Ever be Pure Science? Pharmaceuticals, the Pharmaceutical Industry and Biomedical Research in the Twentieth Century....Pages 143-166
Front Matter....Pages 167-172
Instruments, Scientists, Industrialists and the Specificity of βInfluenceβ: The Case of RCA and Biological Electron Microscopy....Pages 173-208
Disciplining Cancer: Mice and the Practice of Genetic Purity....Pages 209-249
Interlaboratory Life: Regulating Flow Cytometry....Pages 250-295
Front Matter....Pages 297-300
Industrial R&D and Its Influence on the Organization and Management of the Production of Knowledge in the Public Sector....Pages 301-344
Shifting Boundaries between Industry and Science: The Role of the WHO in Contraceptive R&D....Pages 345-368
Back Matter....Pages 369-379
Industries; History of Science; Social History; Engineering, general
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