Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts, 2nd Edition

Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts, 2nd Edition

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…

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