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Physical description:
xiii, 379 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Type:
Case studies
Date:
1998
Notes:
"In association with Centre for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Manchester."
Contents:
An old hand in a new system / H. Otto Sibum -- Plasticine and valves : industry, instrumentation and the emergence of nuclear physics / Jeff Hughes -- Instrument hierarchies : laboratories, industry and divisions of labour / Terry Shinn -- Theory from practice : portraying the constitution of synthetic dyestuffs in the 1860s / Anthony S. Travis -- Can it ever be pure science? Pharmaceuticals, the pharmaceutical industry and biomedical research in the twentieth century / Jordan Goodman -- Instruments, scientists, industrialists and the specificity of 'influence' : the case of RCA and biological electron microscopy / Nicolas Rasmussen -- Disciplining cancer : mice and the practice of genetic purity / Ilana Löwy and Jean-Paul Gaudillière -- Interlaboratory life : regulating flow cytometry / Peter Keating and Alberto Cambrosio -- Industrial R&D and its influence on the organization and management of the production of knowledge in the public sector / Vivien Walsh -- Shifting boundaries between industry and science : the role of the WHO in contraceptive R&D / Nelly Oudshoorn
