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By Karine Chemla, Evelyn Fox Keller

Cultural money owed of medical principles and practices have more and more end up welcomed as a corrective to previous—and nonetheless broadly held—theories of medical wisdom and practices as common. The editors warning, although, opposed to the temptation to overgeneralize the paintings of tradition, and to lapse right into a type of essentialism that flattens the variety and diversity of clinical paintings. The booklet refers to this tendency as culturalism. The individuals to the amount version a brand new course the place historicized and cultural bills of medical perform continue their specificity and complexity with out falling into the traps of culturalism. They research, between different concerns, the opportunity of utilizing notions of tradition to review habit in monetary markets; the ideology, association, and perform of earthquake tracking and prediction in the course of China's Cultural Revolution; the heritage of quadratic equations in China; and the way learning the "glass ceiling" and employment discrimination grew to become authorised within the social sciences. Demonstrating the necessity to comprehend the paintings of tradition as a fluid and dynamic approach that at once either shapes and is formed through medical perform, Cultures with out Culturalism makes an enormous intervention in technological know-how studies.

participants. Bruno Belhoste, Karine Chemla, Caroline Ehrhardt, Fa-ti Fan, Evelyn Fox Keller, Kenji Ito, Guillaume Lachenal, Donald MacKenzie, Mary Morgan, Nancy Nersessian, David Rabouin, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Claude Rosental, Koen Vermeir

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