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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 f Hardback - 2010

by Steven Shapin

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Steven Shapin argues that science, for all its immense authority and power, is and always has been a human endeavor, subject to human capacities and limits. Put simply, science has never been pure. To be human is to err, and we understand science better when we recognize it as the laborious achievement of fallible, imperfect, and historically situated human beings.

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.

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  • Title Never Pure: Historical Studies of Science as If It Was Produced by People with Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture, and Society, and Struggling f
  • Author Steven Shapin
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 568
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore
  • Publication date 2010-04
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780801894206 / 0801894204
  • Weight 1.95 lbs (0.88 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.1 x 1.5 in (23.62 x 15.49 x 3.81 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Category Science
  • Library of Congress subjects Science - History, Science - Social aspects
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2009023834
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.45

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Citations

  • Library Journal, 04/01/2010, Page 93
  • New York Review of Books, 06/24/2010, Page 30

About the author

Steven Shapin is the Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard, and his books include Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life (with Simon Schaffer), A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England, and The Scientific Revolution. He has written for the New Yorker and writes regularly for the London Review of Books.

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