Featuring the work of an all-star cast of writers, Doing Science + Culture is a collection of new work in the cultural study of science, technology, and medicine. The contributors include anthropologists, sociologists, literature/communication scholars, and historians of science who focus on the analysis of science and scientific discourses within culture, rather than 'doing' science. Serving as a road map to the next stage of work in the cultural study of science, this book is a vital contribution by 'science watchers' - cultural analysts who will be explaining how and why we should look at the way science is used and talked about in the contemporary world.

The author shows how a new commercial and learned print culture attempted to write and regulate individual and collective practices in terms of a master idiom of family, sexuality, and gender upon which a post-revolutionary national community would turn.