Laboratory Life
1979 book by Bruno Latour / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Laboratory Life: The Social Construction of Scientific Facts is a 1979 book by sociologists of science Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar.
Author | Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar |
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Country | USA |
Language | English |
Genre | Sociological study |
Publisher | Sage Publications, Beverly Hills |
Publication date | 1979 |
ISBN | 0-8039-0993-4 |
OCLC | 256126659 |
574/.07/2 | |
LC Class | QH315 .L315 |
This influential book in the field of science studies presents an anthropological study of Roger Guillemin's scientific laboratory at the Salk Institute. It advances a number of observations regarding how scientific work is conducted, including descriptions of the complex relationship between the routine lab practices performed by scientists, the publication of papers, scientific prestige, research finances and other elements of laboratory life.
The book is considered to be one of the most influential works in the laboratory studies tradition within Science and Technology Studies. It is inspired by but not entirely dependent on the ethnomethodological approach. In turn, it served as the inspiration for Actor–network theory (or ANT); many of ANT's core concepts (like transcription, inscription, translation, and the deployment of networks) are present in Laboratory Life.