Product Description: What is the relationship between scientific work and scientific theories? Are facts discovered or constructed? This book answers these questions in a novel manner. Early in the 1870s, and handful of London medical researchers - surgeons, pathologists, physiologists, and neurologists - envisioned a map of the brain that would match specific parts of the brain with unique, discrete functions (such as speech)...read more

This collection of articles provides a comprehensive overview of personal and public issues related to social change and how they shape scientific and technical knowledge. Ecologies of Knowledge provides a comprehensive overview of issues relating to work, politics, and the latest perspectives on the role of materials, feminism, "nonhumans", and work practices as shaping scientific and technical knowledge. In addition to theoretical contributions, the authors cover biotechnology, computing, representations and space, aerospace engineering, and a variety of ethical perspectives and controversies in these domains.

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Classification systems and their role in shaping philosophy and social interactions are explored in this unique analysis of human infrastructures. (view table of contents)