Browsing by Author "Shapin, Steven"
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The Audience for Science in Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh
Shapin, Steven (Science History Publications Ltd, 1974) -
Cordelia's Love: Credibility and the Social Studies of Science
Shapin, Steven (The University of Chicago Press, 1995)This article assesses the current state of research on the credibility of scientific claims and makes some recommendations about the lines along which future historical and sociological inquiry might most constructively ... -
Descartes the Doctor: Rationalism and Its Therapies
Shapin, Steven (Cambridge University Press, 2000)During the Scientific Revolution one important gauge of the duality of reformed natural philosophical knowledge was its ability to produce a more effective medical practice. Indeed, it was sometimes thought that philosophers ... -
Discipline and Bounding: The History and Sociology of Science as Seen through the Externalism-Internalism Debate
Shapin, Steven (Science History Publications Ltd, 1992) -
Expertise, Common Sense, and the Atkins Diet
Shapin, Steven (University of Toronto Press, 2007) -
Head and Hand: Rhetorical Resources in British Pedagogical Writing, 1770-1850
Shapin, Steven; Barnes, Barry (Taylor & Francis, 1976) -
Here and Everywhere - Sociology of Scientific Knowledge
Shapin, Steven (Annual Reviews, 1995)The sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) is one of the profession's most marginal specialties, yet its objects of inquiry, its modes of inquiry, and certain of its findings have very substantial bearing upon the nature ... -
History of Science and Its Sociological Reconstructions
Shapin, Steven (Science History Publications, 1982) -
The House of Experiment in Seventeenth-Century England
Shapin, Steven (University of Chicago Press, 1988) -
How to Eat Like a Gentleman: Dietetics and Ethics in Early Modern England
Shapin, Steven (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003) -
How to Live Forever: Lessons of History
Shapin, Steven; Martyn, Christopher (BMJ Publishing Group, 2000) -
Hyperprofessionalism and the Crisis of Readership in the History of Science
Shapin, Steven (University of Chicago Press, 2005)There is a crisis of readership for work in our field, as in many other academic disciplines. One of its causes is a pathological form of the professionalism that we so greatly value. "Hyperprofessionalism" is a disease ... -
The Invisible Technician
Shapin, Steven (American Scientist, 1989) -
The Ivory Tower: The History of a Figure of Speech and Its Cultural Uses
Shapin, Steven (Cambridge Journals, 2012)This is a historical survey of how and why the notion of the Ivory Tower became part of twentieth- and twenty-first-century cultural vocabularies. It very briefly tracks the origins of the tag in antiquity, documents its ... -
The Man of Science
Shapin, Steven (Cambridge University Press, 2006) -
"The Mind is Its Own Place": Science and Solitude in Seventeenth-Century England
Shapin, Steven (Cambridge University Press, 1991) -
Of Gods and Kings: Natural Philosophy and Politics in the Leibniz-Clarke Disputes
Shapin, Steven (The University of Chicago Press, 1981) -
The Philosopher and the Chicken: On the Dietetics of Disembodied Knowledge
Shapin, Steven (University of Chicago Press, 1998) -
Phrenological Knowledge and the Social Structure of Early Nineteenth-Century Edinburgh
Shapin, Steven (Taylor & Francis, 1975)Analyzes the phrenological knowledge and the social structure of early nineteenth-century Edinburgh in Scotland. Accountability for conflict between phrenologists and anti-phrenologists; Details on the utility and the image ...