Laboratory Life
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Laboratory Life: The Social Construction of Scientific Facts is a 1979 book by sociologists Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar. This influential book in the field of science studies presents an anthropological study of Roger Guillemin's scientific laboratory at the Salk Institute. It advances a number of observations regarding how scientific work is conducted, including descriptions of the complex relationship between the routine lab practices performed by scientists, the publication of papers, scientific prestige, research finances and other elements of laboratory life.
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- English
- 1979. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications. ISBN 0803909934.
- 1986. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 069102832X, OCLC 4775088.
- French
- 1988. la Vie de laboratoire : la Production des faits scientifiques. Paris: La Découverte. ISBN 2707148482, OCLC 19298021.
