SCIENTIFIC AND MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION, 1796-1918
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SCIENTIFIC AND MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION, 1796-1918 (ebook)

ROB BODDICE

$1,480.00
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Editorial:
ROUTLEDGE
ISBN:
9781000860115
Formato:
Epublication content package
Idioma:
Inglés
DRM
Si

This volume showcases doubt from within the scientific community itself. These sources dwell upon the moments at which ideas became challenged, when facts were revealed to be fiction, and when knowns reverted to unknowns. But the focus is not the ideas and facts themselves, but on the ways in which scientists adjusted themselves to new landscapes of uncertainty in their particular cultural and professional practices.

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