Ways of Knowing

A new history of science, technology and medicine

By: John V. Pickstone, Martin Hargreaves

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Paperback | 28 December 2000

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This is a discussion of the historical development of science, technology and medicine in Western Europe and North America from the Renaissance to the present. By linking its development to the wider context of human society, the constant changing process of human perception, comprehension and manipulation of the world is revealed. Four principal ways of knowing are identified within particular periods: natural history in the 18th century; analysis following the French Revolution; experiment in the epoch of modernism; and the current presence of technoscience. John Pickstone 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.

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Non-Fiction Medicine Medicine in General History of Medicine Engineering & Technology Technology in General History of Engineering & Technology Science Science in General History of Science Society & Culture Cultural Studies

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Acknowledgements
A note to the reader
Ways of knowing: an introduction	p. 1
World-readings: the meanings of nature and of science	p. 33
Natural history	p. 60
Analysis and the rationalisation of production	p. 83
The elements of bodies, earth and society	p. 106
Experimentalism and invention	p. 135
Industries, universities and the technoscientific complexes	p. 162
Technoscience and public understandings: the British case c.2000	p. 189
Bibliography	p. 226
Index	p. 260
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