Although craftspeople and artists often work with natural materials, the notion that making art can constitute a means of knowing nature is a novel one. This book, with contributions from historians of science, medicine, art, and material culture, shows that the histories of science and art are not simply histories of concepts or styles, but histories of the making and using of...(展开全部)

“Making” and “knowing” have generally been viewed as belonging to different types and orders of knowledge. “Craft” and “making” have been associated with how-to information, oriented to a particular situation or product, often informal and tacit, while “knowing” has been related to theoretical, propositional, and abstract knowledge including natural science. Although craftspeop...(展开全部)

作者简介： [英]史蒂芬·康纳 Steven Connor 英国剑桥大学英语系名誉教授以及艺术、社会科学和人文研究中心主任。他的著作繁多，包括《肤之书》（The Book of Skin）、《苍蝇》（Fly）、《空气这种物质：空气的科学与艺术》（The Matter of Air: Science and the Art of the Ethereal）、《运动哲学》（A Philosophy of Sport）、《言外之意：呜咽、闷哼、结巴与其他发声》（Beyond Words: Sobs, Hums, Stutters and Other Vocalizations）。

In this collection of new and previously published essays, Sherry Ortner draws on her more than two decades of work in feminist anthropology to offer a major reconsideration of culture and gender. Making Gender is rich in theoretical insights and ethnographic examples, offering a stimulating synthesis of the field by one of its founders and foremost theorists.

Once considered a mere caretaker for collections, the curator is now widely viewed as a globally connected auteur. Over the last twenty-five years, as international group exhibitions and biennials have become the dominant mode of presenting contemporary art to the public, curatorship has begun to be perceived as a constellation of creative activities not unlike artistic praxis....(展开全部)

The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies introduces and reviews current thinking in the interdisciplinary field of material culture studies. Drawing together approaches from archaeology, anthropology, geography, and Science and Technology Studies, through twenty-eight specially commissioned essays by leading international researchers, the volume explores contemporary is...(展开全部)

皮克斯通（John V．Pickstone），出生于英国伯恩利。先学生理学，后在伦敦切尔西学院获得哲学博士学位。博士论文研究法国19世纪早期的普通生理学。在美国明尼苏达大学两年之后，于1974年到英国曼彻斯特大学研究医院史。1986年，他创建了曼彻斯特大学科学、技术和医学史中心，现为该中心韦尔科姆研究教授。其著作广泛涉及生物医学科学史、英国科学和医学的社会史及卫生保健和医疗技术的近期历史。著有：《医学与工业社会：曼彻斯特及其地区1752—1946年的医院发展史》（1985年）、《从历史角度看医学革新》（1992年，编者、撰稿者）、《二十世纪医学指南》（2000年，与Roger Cooter合编并撰稿）、《认识方式——一种新的科学、技术和医学史》（2000年）、《外科医生、制造商与患者——大西洋彼岸全髋关节置换史》（2007年，与Julie Ander...(展开全部)

皮克斯通（John V．Pickstone），出生于英国伯恩利。先学生理学，后在伦敦切尔西学院获得哲学博士学位。博士论文研究法国19世纪早期的普通生理学。在美国明尼苏达大学两年之后，于1974年到英国曼彻斯特大学研究医院史。1986年，他创建了曼彻斯特大学科学、技术和医学史中心，现为该中心韦尔科姆研究教授。其著作广泛涉及生物医学科学史、英国科学和医学的社会史及卫生保健和医疗技术的近期历史。著有：《医学与工业社会：曼彻斯特及其地区1752—1946年的医院发展史》（1985年）、《从历史角度看医学革新》（1992年，编者、撰稿者）、《二十世纪医学指南》（2000年，与Roger Cooter合编并撰稿）、《认识方式——一种新的科学、技术和医学史》（2000年）、《外科医生、制造商与患者——大西洋彼岸全髋关节置换史》（2007年，与Julie Ander...(展开全部)

In Ways of Knowing, John V. Pickstone provides a new and accessible framework for understanding science, technology, and medicine (STM) in the West from the Renaissance to the present. Pickstone's approach has four key features. First, he synthesizes the long-term histories and philosophies of disciplines that are normally studied separately. Second, he dissects STM into specif...(展开全部)

Product Description In Making Natural Knowledge: Constructivism and the History of Science, Jan Golinski reviews recent writing on the history of science and shows how it has been dramatically reshaped by a new understanding of science itself. In the last few years, scientific knowledge has come to be seen as a product of human culture, an approach that has challenged the tradi...(展开全部)