The Invisible Industrialist

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. General Introduction

   1. General Introduction

      • Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Ilana Löwy

      Pages 3-15

3. Tools and Research Materials: The Industrialist as Producer

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-22

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   2. An Old Hand in a New System

      • H. Otto Sibum

      Pages 23-57

   3. Plasticine and Valves: Industry, Instrumentation and the Emergence of Nuclear Physics

      • Jeff Hughes

      Pages 58-101

   4. Instrument Hierarchies: Laboratories, Industry and Divisions of Labour

      • Terry Shinn

      Pages 102-121

   5. Theory from Practice: Portraying the Constitution of Synthetic Dyestuffs in the 1860s

      • Anthony S. Travis

      Pages 122-142

   6. Can it Ever be Pure Science? Pharmaceuticals, the Pharmaceutical Industry and Biomedical Research in the Twentieth Century

      • Jordan Goodman

      Pages 143-166

4. Standardizing Tools, Operators and Practices: The Industrialist as Regulator

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-172

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   2. Instruments, Scientists, Industrialists and the Specificity of ‘Influence’: The Case of RCA and Biological Electron Microscopy

      • Nicolas Rasmussen

      Pages 173-208

   3. Disciplining Cancer: Mice and the Practice of Genetic Purity

      • Ilana Löwy, Jean-Paul Gaudillière

      Pages 209-249

   4. Interlaboratory Life: Regulating Flow Cytometry

      • Peter Keating, Alberto Cambrosio

      Pages 250-295

5. Organization of Research and Policy: The Industrialist as Manager

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 297-300

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   2. Industrial R&D and Its Influence on the Organization and Management of the Production of Knowledge in the Public Sector

      • Vivien Walsh

      Pages 301-344

   3. Shifting Boundaries between Industry and Science: The Role of the WHO in Contraceptive R&D

      • Nelly Oudshoorn

      Pages 345-368

6. Back Matter

   Pages 369-379

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Industrial methods, and industrially produced instruments, reagents and living organisms are central to research activities today. They play a key role in the homogenization and the diffusion of laboratory practices, thus in their transformation into a stable and unproblematic knowledge about the natural world. This book displays the - frequently invisible - role of industry in the construction of fundamental scientific knowledge through the examination of case studies taken from the history of nineteenth and the twentieth century physics, chemistry and biomedical sciences.

• chemistry
• electron microscopy
• history
• industry
• management
• material
• organization
• physics
• production
• research

• Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Paris, France

  Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Ilana Löwy

OTTO SIBUM Fellow Researcher, Max Planck Institut fur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin JEFF HUGHES Lecturer in History of Science and Technology, University of Manchester TERRY SHINN is conducting research ANTHONY TRAVIS Deputy Director, Sidney M. Edelstein Centre for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel JORDAN GOODMAN Senior Lecturer in History, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology NICOLAS RASMUSSEN Lecturer in History of Science, University of Sidney PETER KEATING Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Quebec (Montreal) ALBERTO CAMBROSIO Associate Professor, Department of Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University (Montreal) VIVIEN WALSH Senior Lecturer in Innovation and Technology Management, UMIST NELLY OUDSHOORN Lecturer, Department of Science and Technology Dynamics, University of Amsterdam

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