Science in context : readings in the sociology of science / edited by Barry Barnes and David Edge.

Milton Keynes : Open University Press, 1982.

xi, 371 pages ; 23 cm

Gift giving as an organizing principle in science / W.O. Hagstrom -- The cycle of credibility / B. Latour & S. Woolgar -- Tacit knowledge and scientific networks / H.M. Collins -- Normal measurement and reasonable agreement / T.S. Kuhn -- The replication of experiments in physics / H.M. Collins -- Formal and informal thought / D. Bloor -- Interests and analogies / A. Pickering -- The science-technology relationship / O. Mayr -- The parallel structures of science and technology / D.J. de S. Price -- Science, technology and the development of the transistor / M. Gibbons & C. Johnson -- Agricultural chemistry : A goal-oriented science / W. Krohn & W. Schäfer -- Natural knowledge and social context : Cambridge physicists and the luminiferous ether / B. Wynne -- Cross-examination of chemists in drugs cases / J.S. Oteri, et al. -- Environments at risk / M. Douglas -- Controversy as a political challenge / D. Nelkin -- Science court on trial in Minnesota / B. Casper & P. Wellstone -- The fear of innovation / D. Schon -- Carcinogenic risk assessment in the USA and UK : The case of Aldrin/Dieldrin / B. Gillespie, et al.

Includes bibliography and index