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科学史/メディア論のリサーチ・ダイアリー

Self and Scientific Biography

Paul Whiteの2009年Isis Focus 'THE EMOTIONAL ECONOMY OF SCIENCE'のイントロからscinetific biographyについて。

  • Thomas Söderqvist “Existential Projects and Existential Choice in Science: Science Biography as an Edifying Genre,” in Telling Lives in Science: Essays on Scientific Biography, ed. Michael Shortland and Richard Yeo (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1996), pp. 45–84;

  • Thomas Söderqvist, “‘No Genre of History Fell under More Odium Than That of Biography’: The Delicate Relations between Scientific Biography and the Historiography of Science,” in The History and Poetics of Scientific Biography, ed. Söderqvist (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), pp. 241–262.

Thomas Söderqvistは科学者の伝記についてわりと研究してるらしい。

The History and Poetics of Scientific Biography (Science, Technology and Culture 1700-1945)

The History and Poetics of Scientific Biography (Science, Technology and Culture 1700-1945)

かれの著作としては以下の『免疫学の巨人イェルネ』が翻訳されている。

免疫学の巨人イェルネ

免疫学の巨人イェルネ

また、Whiteによると、科学者の身体的制御については以下の本がよいらしい。

  • Christopher Lawrence and Steven Shapin, eds., Science Incarnate: Historical Embodiments of Natural Knowledge (Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press, 1998);

Science Incarnate: Historical Embodiments of Natural Knowledge

Science Incarnate: Historical Embodiments of Natural Knowledge

Selfについては以下の二つも。Karl PearsonはPorterの本の中で一番面白い気がする。

  • Theodore M. Porter, Karl Pearson: The Scientific Life in a Statistical Age (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press, 2005)

Karl Pearson: The Scientific Life in a Statistical Age

Karl Pearson: The Scientific Life in a Statistical Age

  • Steven Shapin, The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation (Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press, 2008).

The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation

The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation