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DOl NG + SCIENCE How CULTURAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES ARE CHANGING THE WAY WE LOOK AT SCIENCE AND MEDICINE ClJ ~ ~ +oJ :J u + ClJ (,) C ClJ (,) Cf) 0"1 C o o Copyrighted Material Doing Science Culture + Edited by Roddey Reid and Sharon Traweek Routledge New York London 2000 Copyrighted Material Published in 2000 by Routledge 29 West 35th Street New York, NY 10001 Published in Great Britain by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane London EC4P 4EE Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group Copyright © 2000 by Routledge Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Doing science + culture / edited by Roddey Reid and Sharon Traweek. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-415-92111-2 - ISBN 0-415-92112-0 1. Science-Social Aspects. I. Title: Doing science + culture. II. Reid, Roddey, 1952- III. Traweek, Sharon. Q175.5.D65 2000 306.4'5-dc21 99-056916 Copyrighted Material oJ'I +oJ C Cl.I +oJ C o U Acknowledgments vii I ntroduction: Researching Researchers Roddey Reid and Sharon Traweek llTransnational Science and Globalization Faultlines 21 Sharon Traweek Postcolonial Science, Big Science, and Landscape 49 Itty Abraham Transnational Genomics 71 Transgressing the Boundary between the "Modern/West" and the "Premodern/East" Joan H. Fujimura 21 Emerging Subjects Wonder Woman and Her Disciplinary Powers 9S The Queer Intersection of Scientific Authority and Mass Culture Molly Rhodes Copyrighted Material vi Content') Researcher or Smoker? 119 Or, When the Other Isn't Other Enough in Studying "Across" Tobacco Control Roddey Reid The Ecstasy of Miscommunication 151 Cyberpsychiatry and Mental Dis-Ease Jackie Orr The Rationality of Mania 177 Emily Martin 3/ Postdisciplinary Pedagogies and Programs Mainstreaming Feminist Critiques into 199 the Biology Curriculum Scott F. Gilbert with collaboration from the Biology and Gender Study Group Reconceiving Scientific literacy as Agential literacy 221 Or, Learning How to Intra-act Responsibly within the World Karen Barad Engineering Cultural Studies 259 The Postdisciplinary Adventures of Mindplayers, Fools, and Others Anne Balsamo Calling the Future(s) with Ethnographic and 275 Historiographic Legacy Disciplines STS @ the Turn []OOO.mit.edu Michael M. ]. Fischer Index 323 Copyrighted Material Acknowled mente:, The publication of these collected essays is the fruit of various collaborations that stretch back to 1993, when we first staged a conference on interdiscipli nary studies of science, technology, and medicine. These efforts have enjoyed institutional and individual support from many quarters. First and foremost is the University of California Humanities Research Institute, which in 1993 sponsored the "Located Knowledges" conference at UCLA and in the winter and spring quarters of 1996 hosted the "Postdisciplinary Approaches to Technoscience" residential research group. The unstinting support and en couragement of HRI directors Mark Rose and Pat O'Brien will always be in our eyes as an example of what bold leadership in the humanities can do in the United States, particularly in times of public controversy and institutional change. Our six-month residence at the HRI under Pat O'Brien's generous custodianship especially gave ample opportunity to appreciate the institute's unparalleled resources and the qualities of its staff: we want to thank Assistant Director Deborah Massey Sanchez for her energetic organization of planning, budget, and the group's day-to-day needs; Mia Larson for keeping track of our complex scheduling of events; DeeDee Nunez, who made arrangements for visiting scholars and guaranteed that the residency at the HRI housing was an enjoyable one; and Christine Aschan for helping us fully exploit the scholarly resources of the HRI and the University of California, Irvine, campus. vii Copyrighted Material viii Acknowlf'dgmf'nt'> Members of the research group and scholarly and scientific participants in the colloquia and workshops it hosted deserve particular thanks: Anne Bal samo, Karen Barad, Charles Bazerman, Mario Biagioli, Lisa Bloom, Lisa Cartwright, Adele Clarke, Rich Doyle, Joan Fujimura, Akhil Gupta, Sandra Harding, Jed Harris, Val Hartouni, John L. King, Karin Knorr-Cetina, Emily Martin, Constance Penley, Ted Porter, Paul Rabinow, Molly Rhodes, Vernon Rosario, Vivian Sobchack, Knut Sorenson, Carole Vance, and Steve Woolgar. Mario Biagioli, who helped organize these undertakings before leaving Cali fornia, was an invaluable collaborator. The anthology also owes its existence to other colleagues: Linda Brodkey, Gerald Feldman, Donna Haraway, and Peter Reill. Lisa Bloom provided crucial support throughout the entire enterprise. We thank Bill Germano of Routledge for supporting this project, Amy Reading for her experience and efficient editorial oversight, and Krister Swartz for making the production process go as smoothly as possible. Finally, during various stages of the project we enjoyed funding from the following sources: the University of California Humanities Research Institute; the Center for German and European Studies of the University of California, Berkeley; the Abe Fellowship Program of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies, with funds provided by the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership; the Academic Senates of the University of California at San Diego and Los Angeles; and the Japanese gov ernment's Ministry of Education. Copyrighted Material Introduction Researching Researchers a.. -u -u a 0::: The present collection of essays marks a particular moment in the interdisci plinary study of science, technology, and medicine in that globalized region of residence and work called the United States. This publication takes place at a juncture marked by the slow dismantling of the infrastructure of scientific re search dating from the Cold War, public controversies over scholarly studies of scientific practices, and changes in U.S. higher education. The hope of the edi tors is that the essays not only bear witness to the peculiar institutional, na tional, and global contexts in which they were written but also constitute compelling responses to the evolving environment in which researchers en gage in committed study of past and present practices of knowing the natural and social world. We welcome comment from within and outside the U.S. aca demic infrastructure on the substance of these essays and on their underlying assumptions and preoccupations, which derive from that same institutional and national context. If the environment in which physics, evolutionary biology, psychology, pharmaceutical research, radio astronomy, bioinformatics, cybernetics, psy chiatry, public health, and genetics are practiced-from wet and computer simulation labs to research protocols, funding networks, scientific journals, and databases to classroom teaching and popular culture-is for us an object Copyrighted Material Roddey Reid and Sharon Traweek of reflection, so, too, are the contexts in which we study them. Here we must contend with the legacy of the peculiar histories of the humanities and social sciences within U.S. higher education (prestige, public mission, styles of re search and pedagogy, and so on); with research sites such as archives, libraries, field sites; with the infrastructure offunding, publishing, and professional net works; with interdisciplinary programs from women's studies and science studies to cultural studies and queer studies; with rapidly evolving student constituencies; with the restructuring of colleges and universities mandated by budget cutting and political pressures; and with the dismantlement of affirma tive action policies. We want to claim that the practices of cultural studies and interdisciplinary studies of science and medicine of the last twenty years refl ect both these contexts-of doing science and of doing research on science and are well positioned to deal with the challenges they pose to the routine understandings of how knowledge is produced. I Doing Science + Culture brings together interdisciplinary essays researched and written from within those two contexts. This is not the first anthology to do SO,2 but it is our contention that it is unique in offering concrete case stud ies together with thoughtful reflection on what it means to do cultural studies of science, technology, and medicine today in the United States. We think these essays display a tone, a way of launching ideas, and a relation to knowl edge production in general that readers can take away and use to further the formulation of their own ideas and projects.3 Collaborations and In terdisciplinary Practitioners This anthology is the culmination of collaborative work between the editors that began in 1991 and has included also the active participation of Mario Biagi olio The three of us came from various backgrounds (computer science, visual studies, history of science, literary studies, cultural history, anthropology of sci ence, feminist epistemology, and cultural studies), training (cultural theory, fieldwork, archival research, linguistic apprenticeships, and iconographic and textual analysis), and prior United States institutional experience (from private research universities and engineering schools to liberal arts colleges and land grant and public research universities on the West and East Coasts and in the Midwest and the South). We believe that the unusual mix of our cross-discipli nary and cross-institutional experiences laid the foundation for the three of us to explore together ways for furthering committed, interdisciplinary inquiry in the United States into scientific, technological, and medical practices. Copyrighted Material

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