Ways of Knowing
A new history of science, technology and medicine
By John V. Pickstone
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- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 978-0-7190-5994-0
- Pages: 288
- Price: £12.99
- Published Date: December 2000
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.
Contents
1. Ways of Knowing
2. World-readings: the meanings of nature and science
3. Natural History
4. Analysis and rationalism of production
5. The elements of bodies, earth and society
6. Experimentalism and invention
7. Invention and the technoscientific complexes
8. Technoscience and public understandings: the British case c.2000
Author
Professor John Pickstone founded Manchester University 's Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM) and the Manchester Histories Festival