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What is Science and Technology Studies?

Students and scholars in the field of science and technology studies want to know how scientific knowledge is produced. We believe that the idealized accounts of knowledge production entrenched in our scientific belief system are inadequate, given the complexity of the process they claim to describe.

STS scholars seek to understand how science operates by analyzing historical case studies, observing contemporary scientists at work, examining representations of scientific ideas in textbooks or journals, and studying the infrastructure of scientific institutions.

This interdisciplinary field brings together anthropologists, philosophers, historians, art historians, literary theorists, sociologists and practicing scientists.

Introducing:

The Humanities/Science Project
Critical Conversations about Life and Knowledge

The Cogut Center for the Humanities and the Faculty Committee on Science and Technology Studies announce a three-year collaborative program linking the sciences and the humanities.

In 2008-2009, we will celebrate the Darwin Bicentennial. For more information about these special events and lectures click here.

Reading List

NEW! from the STS field:

Dolly Mixtures: The Remaking of Genealogy, Sarah Franklin, Duke University Press (2007)

Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy, Bruno Latour, Harvard University Press (2004)

Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory, Bruno Latour, Oxford University Press (2007)

The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century, Nikolas Rose, Princeton University Press (2007)

Making Parents: The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies, Charis Thompson, MIT Press (2007)

For more STS books and resources, click here.