Sciences and cultures : anthropological and historical studies of the sciences /
edited by Everett Mendelsohn and Yehuda Elkana.
- Dordrecht, Holland ; Boston : Hingham, MA : D. Reidel Pub. Co. ; Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Boston, c1981.
- xvii, 270 p. ; 23 cm.
- Sociology of the sciences ; v. 5 .
Includes bibliographies and index.
A programmatic attempt at an anthropology of knowledge / Yehuda Elkana -- On the boundaries of science in seventeenth-century England / Peter W.G. Wright -- What should we do with the monster? / Kenneth L. Caneva -- Science and modern Chinese culture / Peter Buck -- The meaning context of illness and care / Arthur Kleinman -- The semantics of medical discourse / Byron J. Good and Mary-Jo Del Vecchio Good -- The necessity of field methods in the study of scientific research / Robert S. Anderson -- Anthropological perspectives in the sociology of science / Wolf Lepenies.
9027712344 9027712352 (pbk.)
81002531
Science--Social aspects.
Q175.55 / .S3
301.24 / MES
Includes bibliographies and index.
A programmatic attempt at an anthropology of knowledge / Yehuda Elkana -- On the boundaries of science in seventeenth-century England / Peter W.G. Wright -- What should we do with the monster? / Kenneth L. Caneva -- Science and modern Chinese culture / Peter Buck -- The meaning context of illness and care / Arthur Kleinman -- The semantics of medical discourse / Byron J. Good and Mary-Jo Del Vecchio Good -- The necessity of field methods in the study of scientific research / Robert S. Anderson -- Anthropological perspectives in the sociology of science / Wolf Lepenies.
9027712344 9027712352 (pbk.)
81002531
Science--Social aspects.
Q175.55 / .S3
301.24 / MES