Medical Innovations: Historiography, Heterogeneity and ‘The Mangle of Practice'

Social Studies of Science

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 863-874

  Nicolson, Malcolm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84992792060     PISSN: 03063127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030631296026004007     Document Type: Review

References (17)

1. The book's contents are as follows: John V. Pickstone, ‘Introduction’, 1–16
2. Lindsay Granshaw, ‘ “Upon This Principle I Have Based a Practice”: The Development and Reception of Antisepsis in Britain, 1867–90’, 17–46
3. Michael Worboys, ‘The Sanatorium Treatment for Consumption in Britain, 1890–1914’, 47–71
4. Paul Weindling, ‘From Medical Research to Clinical Practice: Serum Therapy for Diphtheria in the 1890s’, 72–83
5. Michael Worboys, ‘Vaccine Therapy and Laboratory Medicine in Edwardian Britain’, 84–103
6. Steve Sturdy, ‘From the Trenches to the Hospitals at Home: Physiologists, Clinicians and Oxygen Therapy’, 104–123
7. Anja Hiddinga, ‘X-ray Technology in Obstetrics: Measuring Pelves at the Yale School of Medicine’, 124–145
8. Roger Cooter, ‘The Politics of a Spatial Innovation: Fracture Clinics in Inter-war Britain’, 146–164
9. David Cantor, ‘Cortisone and the Politics of Drama, 1949–55’, 165–184
10. John V. Pickstone, ‘Psychiatry in District General Hospitals: History, Contingency and Local Innovation in the Early Years of the National Health Service’, 185–199
11. Notes & References, 200–276
12. Index, 277–288.
13. John Law, Technology and Heterogeneous Engineering: The Case of Portuguese Expansion’, in Wiebe Bijker and Law (eds), The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1987), 111–134.
14. For example, Andrew Pickering, ‘Living in the Material World: On Realism and Experimental Practice’, in David Gooding, Trevor J. Pinch and Simon Schaffer (eds), The Uses of Experiment: Studies of Experimentation in the Natural Sciences (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), 275–297
15. Pickering, ‘Objectivity and the Mangle of Practice’, Annals of Scholarship, Vol. 8 (1991), 409–425
16. Pickering, The Mangle of Practice: lime, Agency and Science (Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1995).
17. I should of course acknowledge that I have, in the past, indulged in similar prioritizations of the social myself: see, for instance, Malcolm Nicolson and Cathleen McLaughlin, ‘Social Constructionism and Medical Sociology: The Case of the Vascular Theory of Multiple Sclerosis’, Sociology of Health and Illness, Vol. 10 (1988), 234–61. Mea culpa.