Ways of Knowing
A New History of Science, Technology and Medicine
Published on 28. December 2000
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-0-7190-5993-3 (ISBN)
Description
This classic MUP text discusses the historical development of science, technology and medicine in Western Europe and North America from the Renaissance to the present. It identifies four principle ways of knowing within specific periods and balances the historical exposition of natural magic and natural theology with a philosophical interpretation of the Scientific Revolution and reflective comments on Foucault and Collingwood. Combining theoretical discussion and empirical illustration, it redefines the geography of science, technology and medicine. -- .
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7190-5993-3 (9780719059933)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
John V. Pickstone is Professor of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Manchester.
Content
Ways of knowing; world-readings - the meanings of nature and science; natural history; analysis and rationalism of production; the elements of bodies, earth and society; experimentalism and invention; invention and the technoscientific complexes; technoscience and public understandings - the British case c.2000.