Sciences and cultures : anthropological and historical studies of the sciences / edited by Everett Mendelsohn and Yehuda Elkana.

Dordrecht, Holland ; Boston : D. Reidel Pub. Co.; Hingham, MA : Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Boston, [1981], ©1981.

xvii, 270 pages ; 23 cm.

A programmatic attempt at an anthropology of knowledge / Yehuda Elkana -- On the boundaries of science in seventeenth-century England / Peter W.G. Wright -- What should we do with the monster? / Kenneth L. Caneva -- Science and modern Chinese culture / Peter Buck -- The meaning context of illness and care / Arthur Kleinman -- The semantics of medical discourse / Byron J. Good and Mary-Jo Del Vecchio Good -- The necessity of field methods in the study of scientific research / Robert S. Anderson -- Anthropological perspectives in the sociology of science / Wolf Lepenies.

Includes bibliographies and index