Cosmopolitics I-1
Stengers, I. (2010). Cosmopolitics I. R. Bononno, (Trans.). Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press. *Note: I write about books for a number of reasons. Most often, it’s to share my thoughts …
Recent Readings in STS
I’ve been reading pretty voraciously over the past two months and as such, I’ve not had time to keep up with my book reviews. So this is a catch up …
Pickering (2010) The Cybernetic Brain
Andrew Pickering’s (2010) The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future offers readers a thorough and detailed view into this history of cybernetic science. This history focuses on and is presented …
Cozzens, S.E. & Gieryn, T.F. (1990). Theories of science in society. Bloomington: Indiana UP.
In Theories of Science in Society, Cozzens and Gieryn’s have collected an impressive set of contributed chapters detailing major theories in the sociology of science and the sociology of scientific …
Morris, D. B. (1991). The Culture of Pain. Berkeley: UCal Press
David B. Morris’ The Culture of Pain (1991) offers the reader a wide reaching exploration of medical and cultural approaches to pain and its management. Foundational to his book is …
Dumit, J. (2004). Picturing personhood: Brain scans and biomedical identity. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scans are currently used by the popular press and the entertainment industry to provoke great excitement. This mysterious and fantastic technology is (seemingly) able to probe …
Starr, P. (1982). The social transformation of American medicine: The rise of a sovereign profession and the making of vast industry. USA: Basic Books.
In The Social Transformation of American Medicine, Paul Starr offers the reader a sweeping, thorough, and detailed history of the American medical profession. Book One interrogates American medicine’s establishment of …
Segal, J. Z. (2005). Health and the rhetoric of medicine. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP.
In Health and the Rhetoric of Medicine, Judy Segal offers a broad introduction to the idea of rhetorical analysis and criticism as applied to biomedicine. Segal targets an interdisciplinary audience …