Laboratory Lifestyles: The Construction of Scientific Fictions
暫譯: 實驗室生活方式：科學虛構的建構
Kaji-O'Grady, Sandra, Smith, Chris L., Hughes, Russell
- 出版商: Summit Valley Press
- 出版日期: 2019-02-05
- 售價: $1,430
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,359
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 304
- 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
- ISBN: 0262038927
- ISBN-13: 9780262038928
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A generously illustrated examination of the boom in luxurious, resort-style scientific laboratories and how this affects scientists' work.
The past decade has seen an extraordinary laboratory-building boom. This new crop of laboratories features spectacular architecture and resort-like amenities. The buildings sprawl luxuriously on verdant campuses or sit sleekly in expensive urban neighborhoods. Designed to attract venture capital, generous philanthropy, and star scientists, these laboratories are meant to create the ideal conditions for scientific discovery. Yet there is little empirical evidence that shows if they do. Laboratory Lifestyles examines this new species of scientific laboratory from architectural, economic, social, and scientific perspectives. Generously illustrated with photographs of laboratories and scientists at work in them, the book investigates how "lifestyle science" affects actual science. Are scientists working when they stretch in a yoga class, play volleyball in the company tournament, chat in an on-site caf , or show off their facilities to visiting pharmaceutical executives?
The book describes, among other things, the role of beanbag chairs in the construction of science at Xerox PARC; the Southern California vibe of the RAND Corporation (Malibu), General Atomic (La Jolla), and Hughes Research Laboratories (Malibu); and Biosphere 2's "bionauts" as both scientists and scientific subjects; and interstellar laboratories. Laboratory Lifestyles (the title is an allusion to Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar's influential Laboratory Life) documents a shift in what constitutes scientific practice; these laboratories and their lifestyles are as experimental as the science they cultivate.
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Kathleen Brandt, Russell Hughes, Tim Ivison, Sandra Kaji-O'Grady, Stuart W. Leslie, Brian Lonsway, Sean O'Halloran, Simon Sadler, Chris L. Smith, Nicole Sully, Ksenia Tatarchenko, William Taylor, Julia Tcharfas, Albena Yaneva, Stelios Zavos
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一部豐富插圖的書籍，探討奢華度假風格科學實驗室的興起及其對科學家工作的影響。
過去十年見證了實驗室建設的驚人繁榮。這些新型實驗室擁有壯觀的建築和度假式的設施。這些建築在綠意盎然的校園中奢華地延展，或在昂貴的城市社區中優雅地矗立。這些實驗室旨在吸引風險投資、慷慨的慈善捐贈和明星科學家，目的是創造理想的科學發現條件。然而，目前幾乎沒有實證證據顯示它們是否真的能達到這一目的。《Laboratory Lifestyles》從建築、經濟、社會和科學的角度檢視這種新型科學實驗室。書中豐富的實驗室和科學家工作的照片，探討了「生活方式科學」如何影響實際科學。當科學家在瑜伽課上伸展、在公司比賽中打排球、在現場咖啡廳聊天或向來訪的製藥高管展示他們的設施時，他們真的在工作嗎？
本書描述了許多內容，包括豆袋椅在Xerox PARC科學建設中的角色；RAND Corporation（馬里布）、General Atomic（拉荷亞）和Hughes Research Laboratories（馬里布）的南加州氛圍；以及Biosphere 2的「生物航天員」作為科學家和科學主題的雙重身份；還有星際實驗室。《Laboratory Lifestyles》（書名暗指Bruno Latour和Steve Woolgar的影響力著作《Laboratory Life》）記錄了科學實踐構成的變化；這些實驗室及其生活方式與它們所培育的科學一樣具有實驗性。
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Kathleen Brandt, Russell Hughes, Tim Ivison, Sandra Kaji-O'Grady, Stuart W. Leslie, Brian Lonsway, Sean O'Halloran, Simon Sadler, Chris L. Smith, Nicole Sully, Ksenia Tatarchenko, William Taylor, Julia Tcharfas, Albena Yaneva, Stelios Zavos
