Currently Reading
Laboratory Life: The Social Construction of Scientific Facts by Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar (1979).
An anthropological study of a scientific laboratory at the Salk Institute. My favorite book in Science and Technology Studies. A holy book in the STS and anthropology tradition.
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I’ve finished reading this book.
TL;DR: An anthropologist discovers that scientists do not uncover an objective "truth" that exists independently. Instead, truth emerges as a network of relationships between actors. Scientists simply act as translators of this network.
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