The right tools for the job : at work in twentieth-century life sciences / edited by Adele E. Clarke and Joan H. Fujimura.

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1992], ©1992.

xi, 365 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Coutts

What tools? which jobs? why right? / Adele E. Clarke and Joan H. Fujimura -- The role of instruments in the generative analysis of science / James R. Griesemer -- The sociology of a genetic engineering technique : ritual and rationality in the performance of the "plasmid prep" / Kathleen Jordan and Michael Lynch -- Re/constructing socioecologies : system dynamics modeling of nomadic pastoralists in sub-Saharan Africa / Peter J. Taylor -- Manometers, tissue slices, and intermediary metabolism / Frederic L. Holmes -- Whatever happened to Planaria? : C.M. Child and the physiology of inheritance / Gregg Mitman and Anne Fausto-Sterling -- Organisms and interests in scientific research : R.A. Emerson's claims for the unique contributions of agricultural genetics / Barbara A. Kimmelman -- Measuring nature : quantitative data in field biology / Yrjö Haila -- Craft vs. commodity, mess vs. transcendence : how the right tool became the wrong one in the case of taxidermy and natural history / Susan Leigh Star -- A need for standard methods : the case of American bacteriology / Patricia Peck Gossel -- The tools of discipline : standards, models, and measures in the affinity/avidity controversy in immunology / Peter Keating, Alberto Cambrosio, and Michael Mackenzie.

Includes bibliographic references and index