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The Nation, 06/11/1955 - Science: Dawn and Triumph by Harrow, Benjamin (588 words) |
 | Hall's treatise is a scholarly contribution to the history of science. |
| Wilson's enormous tome, is full of the applied science for which Americans have a special liking. |
| ...Science: Dawn and Triumph THE SCIENTIFIC REV OL VTION, 1500-1800... |
| Sample Chapter for Rader, K.: Making Mice: Standardizing Animals for American Biomedical Research, 1900-1955. (5008 words) |
| For the twenty-five years between 1955 and 1980, that thread was not always acknowledged by science policy-making bodies, but it is one of the arguments of this book that it was there all along, ready to be rewoven (by new techniques of mammalian genetic manipulation) into the tapestry that is modern biomedical research. |
| Some of this work follows the model of "great men" histories of science but substitutes "great organisms." But the bulk of it has yielded important new insights with regard to the social life of biologists in their laboratories, as well as the process of making biological knowledge. |
| Recent case studies of standardization in the history and sociology of science stress how--for everything from techniques and instruments to classification and building schemes, and even human organ donation--achieving standards requires intense negotiation over what material, organizational, and conceptual categories can and should be deliberately controlled and therefore taken for granted. |
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