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Never Pure: Historical Studies of Science as if It Was Produced by People with Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture, and Society, and Struggling for Credibility and Authority
Never Pure Historical Studies of Science as if It Was Produced by People with Bodies Situated in Time Space Culture and Society and Struggling for Credibility and Authority
Author: Steven Shapin
Steven Shapin argues that science, for all its immense authority and power, is and always has been a human endeavor, subject to human capacities and limits. Put simply, science has never been pure. To be human is to err, and we understand science better when we recognize it as the laborious achievement of fallible, imperfect, and historically si...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780801894213
ISBN-10: 0801894212
Publication Date: 5/13/2010
Pages: 568
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Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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