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Instrumental Lives: An Intimate Biography of an Indian Laboratory

Instrumental Lives: An Intimate Biography of an Indian Laboratory

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Focus on Modern Subjects

Technology & EngineeringGeneral ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1138587672
ISBN13: 9781138587670
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 13 2018
Pages: 126
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The book is an account of instrument making in a modern Indian scientific laboratory. It uses qualitative research methods such as interviews, historical analysis and laboratory ethnography, to present the micro-details of this enterprise, the counter-intuitive methods employed, and the un-expected material, human and intellectual resources that were mobilised in the process. It locates scientific research and innovation within the social, political and cultural context of a laboratory's physical location and asks important questions of the dominant narratives of innovation that remain fixated on quantitative metrics of publishing, patenting and generating commerce.

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