Sciences and cultures : anthropological and historical studies of the sciences - Mendelsohn, Everett; Elkana, Yehuda, 1934-2012. (Dordrecht, Holland ; Boston : D. Reidel Pub. Co. ; Hingham, MA : Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Boston, 1981)
A programmatic attempt at an anthropology of knowledge / Yehuda Elkana -- On the boundaries of science in seventeenth-century England / Peter W.G. Wright -- What should we do with the monster? / Kenneth L. Caneva -- Science and modern Chinese culture / Peter Buck -- The meaning context of illness and care / Arthur Kleinman -- The semantics of medical discourse / Byron J. Good and Mary-Jo Del Vecchio Good -- The necessity of field methods in the study of scientific research / Robert S. Anderson -- Anthropological perspectives in the sociology of science / Wolf Lepenies.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Keywords: Science -- Social aspects