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Tables of Contents for Biographies of Scientific Objects
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
Introduction The Coming into Being of Scientific Objects
1
14
Lorraine Daston
Preternatural Philosophy
15
27
Lorraine Daston
Mathematical Entities in Scientific Discourse
42
25
Rivka Feldhay
Dreams and Self-consciousness
67
19
Doris Kaufmann
Mutations of the Self in Old Regime and Postrevolutionary France
86
31
Jan Goldstein
The Coming into Being and Passing Away of Value Theories in Economics (1776--1976)
117
15
Gerard Jorland
``An Entirely New Object of Consciousness, of Volition, of Thought''
132
26
Peter Wagner
``Sentimental Pessimism'' and Ethnographic Experience
158
45
Marshall Sahlins
How the Ether Spawned the Microworld
203
23
Jed Z. Buchwald
Life Insurance, Medical Testing, and the Management of Mortality
226
21
Theodore M. Porter
On the Partial Existence of Existing and Nonexisting Objects
247
23
Bruno Latour
Cytoplasmic Particles
270
25
Hans-Jorg Rheinberger
List of Contributors
295
2
Index
297