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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
Shapin's essays collected here include reflections on the historical relationships between science and common sense, between science and modernity, and between science and the moral order. They explore the relevance of physical and social settings in the making of scientific knowledge, the methods appropriate to understanding science historically, dietetics as a compelling site for historical inquiry, the identity of those who have made scientific knowledge, and the means by which science has acquired credibility and authority.
This wide-ranging and intensely interdisciplinary collection by one of the most distinguished historians and sociologists of science represents some of the leading edges of change in the scholarly understanding of science over the past several decades.
About the Author
Reviews
"Professor Shapin has a sense of humor, a good eye for an anecdote and the ability to turn a phrase."—Katherine Bouton, New York Times
"While it might not be for novices, anyone who is interested in how and why science enjoys a privileged position as a source of knowledge should read Shapin's take on the authority given to it vis-à-vis religion and morality, why it is compliment to be both a gentleman and a scholar, and why it matters whether Newton ate chicken or Darwin farted."—Seed Magazine
"An impressive work and one that scientists will benefit from reading. Shapin reminds us that . . . neither scientists nor science itself can be separated from the context of peoples' minds, bodies, cultures, societies. Expectations based on any other understanding are simply unrealistic."—Sam Lemonick, Chemical and Engineering News
"He is a graceful and engaging essayist, and the ample selection of essays in Never Pure . . . affords an excellent basis for reflecting on what he has had to say about the life of science."—Robert E. Kohler, Science
"Never Pure will enrich the bookshelf of any historian of science."—Katy Barrett, Endeavour
"A highly labored style of writing is deployed to perform scholarly virtues that go by names like 'careful,' 'accurate,' and 'rich.'"—Steve Fuller, Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science
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