Laboratory Life - Editions

Editions

English
  • 1979. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications. ISBN 0-8039-0993-4.
  • . (1986), (online preview), Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-691-09418-7, http://books.google.com/books?id=XTcjm0flPdYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22laboratory+life%22&hl=en&ei=P5-vTMb0D4Pfcd37_IYO&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false, retrieved 9 October 2010 Paperback ISBN 0-691-02832-X OCLC 4775088.


The preface to the second edition (1986) reads:

"The most substantial change to the first edition is the addition of an extended postscript in which we set out some of the reactions to the book's first publication in the light of developments in the social study of science since 1979. The postscript also explains the omission of the term "social" from this edition's new subtitle."

So social construction becomes just construction of scientific facts. This change indicates a shift from social constructivism to Actor-network theory, which leaves more room for the non-social or 'natural' (albeit in a non-naturalistic / non-essentialist sense).


French
  • 1988. La Vie de laboratoire : la Production des faits scientifiques, Paris: La Découverte. ISBN 2-7071-4848-2, OCLC 19298021.

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