Crafting Science
A Sociohistory of the Quest for the Genetics of Cancer
Published on 5. February 1996
Book
Hardback
332 pages
978-0-674-33286-7 (ISBN)
Description
During the late 1970s and 1980s, "cancer" underwent a transformation: what had long been a set of heterogeneous diseases marked by uncontrolled cell growth became a disease of our genes. How this happened and what it means is the story Joan Fujimura tells in a rare inside look at the way science works and knowledge is created.
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Edition
Reprint 2014 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
5 s/w Abbildungen, 4 s/w Tabellen
4 Tables, black and white; 5 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
656 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-674-33286-7 (9780674332867)
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Person
Fujimura Joan H.:
Joan H. Fujimura is Associate Professor and Henry R. Luce Professor of Biotechnology and Society in the Department of Anthropology and the Interdisciplinary Program in History and Philosophy of Science at Stanford University.