Ways of Knowing

Two unusual features of John Pickstone's book strike the reader from the start. Firstly, science, technology, and medicine are discussed as a single area of knowledge, referred to as STM. Secondly, distinct ways of knowing are identified, operating in parallel with one another, and extending through all the disciplines that comprise STM. For example, one of these ways of knowing depends on describing, collecting, and classifying, in the way that is most familiar in natural history, although similar factual approaches may be found in other fields, including technology. Another way of thinking and knowing, by contrast, is more oriented to discovering how things work, often by measuring, calculating, theorizing, or simply taking them apart, and this is characterized as analysis

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