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New. Why is science so credible? Usual answers centre on scientists' objective methods or their powerful instruments. This text argues that a better explanation for the cultural authority of science lies downstream, when scientific claims leave laboratories and enter courtrooms, boardrooms, and living rooms. On such occasions, we use "maps" to decide who to believe - cultural maps demarcating "science" from pseudoscience, ideology, faith, or nonsense. Thomas F. Gieryn looks at episodes of boundary-work: Was phrenology good science? How about cold fusion? Is social science really scientific? Is organic farming? After centuries of disputes like these, Gieryn finds no stable criteria that absolutely distinguish science from non-science. Science remains a pliable cultural space, flexibly reshaped to claim credibility for some beliefs while denying it to others. In an epilogue, Gieryn finds this same controversy at the heart of the raging "science wars".
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- Title Cultural Boundaries of Science
- Author Thomas F. Gieryn
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 412
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London:
- Date 1999-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Maps
- ISBN 9780226292618 / 0226292614
- Weight 1.49 lbs (0.68 kg)
- Dimensions 9.25 x 6.31 x 1.23 in (23.50 x 16.03 x 3.12 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Science - Philosophy, Science - Social aspects
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98020394
- Dewey Decimal Code 303.483
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- Booklist, 12/15/1998, Page 0
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