1st Edition
Routledge Revivals: Art and Artifact in Laboratory Science (1985) A study of shop work and shop talk in a research laboratory
Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. Introduction: methodological issues in the study of scientific work; Part I: Ethnographic accounts of shop work; 2. The lab setting 3. Projects and the temporalization of lab inquiry 4. An archeology of artifact; Part II Agreement in laboratory shop talk; 5. Laboratory shop talk 6. Two notions of agreement 7. Objects and objections: modifications of accounts of objects in laboratory shop talk 8. Conclusion; Appendix: The transcript symbols; Bibliography; Index
Biography
Michael E. Lynch is an emeritus professor at the department of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University. His works are particularly concerned with ethnomethodological approaches in science studies. Much of his research has addressed the role of visual representation in scientific practice.
