Book Description
Some of this countrys most imaginative and influential thinkers explore questions such as how science gains authority to direct truth practices, the boundaries between humans and machines, and how science, technology, and medicine contribute to the fashioning of selves. Fieldwork sites include a prenatal sonogram clinic, an inner-city AIDS clinic, a center for brain imaging technology, and a particle physics lab.
About the author
Contributors are Gary Lee Downey, Joseph Dumit, Donna Haraway, Deborah Heath, David J. Hess, Frederick Klemmer, Juan C. Lucena, Emily Martin, Laury Oaks, Paul Rabinow, Rayna Rapp, Karen-Sue Taussig, Sharon Traweek, Ariane van der Straten, and Sarah Williams.
