12 décembre 2021
jessicapidoux, « When Science and Society Interact: a Short History of Conventions », COESO, ID : 10670/1.bkh9yf
If we put experiments in a more historical perspective as Sciences and Technology Studies (STS) often do, it is useful to understand in three periods where we come from in terms of the relationship between science and society. The first steps of scientific practice took place under the scrutiny of citizens, even though it was a limited number of “enlightened citizens” who participated. As Shapin and Schaffer [1985] (2017) show in their story of the air pump by Boyle, citizens and members of...