Why does an object or phenomenon become the subject of scientific
inquiry? Why do some of these objects remain provocative, while
others fade from center stage? And why do objects sometimes return
as the focus of research long after they were once abandoned?
Addressing such questions, "Biographies of Scientific Objects" is
about how whole domains of phenomena--dreams, atoms, monsters,
culture, society, mortality, centers of gravity, value, cytoplasmic
particles, the self, tuberculosis--come into being and sometimes
pass away as objects of scientific study. With examples drawn from
both the natural and social sciences, and ranging from the
sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, this book explores the ways
in which scientific objects are both real and historical. Whether
discovered or invented, these objects of inquiry broaden and deepen
in meaning--growing more "real"--as they become entangled in webs
of cultural significance, material practices, and theoretical
derivations. Thus their biographies will matter to anyone concerned
with the formation of scientific knowledge.
Contributors are Jed Z. Buchwald, Lorraine Daston, Rivka Feldhay,
Jan Goldstein, Gerard Jorland, Doris Kauffman, Bruno Latour,
Theodore M. Porter, Hans-Jorg Rheinberger, Marshall Sahlins, and
Peter Wagner.
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