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Steven Shapin

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Bachelors History and Sociology University of Manchester

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According to Wikipedia, Steven Shapin is an American historian and sociologist of science. He is the Franklin L. Ford Research Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. He is considered one of the earliest scholars on the sociology of scientific knowledge, and is credited with creating new approaches. He has won many awards, including the 2014 George Sarton Medal of the History of Science Society for career contributions to the field.

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Laboratory life. The social construction of scientific facts (1981) (2251)
Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle and the Experimental Life (1987) (1528)
A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England, Steven Shapin. 1994. University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. 530 pages. ISBN: 0-226-75018-3. $29.95 (1995) (994)
The Scientific Revolution (1997) (669)
A Social History Of Truth (1994) (663)
Pump and Circumstance: Robert Boyle's Literary Technology (1984) (504)
The Invisible Technician (1989) (461)
The House of Experiment in Seventeenth-Century England (1988) (410)
History of Science and its Sociological Reconstructions (1982) (400)
HERE AND EVERYWHERE: Sociology of Scientific Knowledge (1995) (388)
The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation (2008) (328)
Placing the View from Nowhere: Historical and Sociological Problems in the Location of Science (1998) (295)
Discipline and Bounding: The History and Sociology of Science as Seen through the Externalism-Internalism Debate (1992) (278)
The Place of Knowledge A Methodological Survey (1991) (258)
Never Pure: Historical Studies of Science as if It Was Produced by People with Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture, and Society, and Struggling for Credibility and Authority (2010) (184)
Natural order : historical studies of scientific culture (1979) (176)
The scientific life (2008) (165)
Cordelia’s Love: Credibility and the Social Studies of Science (1995) (160)
The sciences of subjectivity (2012) (130)
Phrenological knowledge and the social structure of early nineteenth-century Edinburgh. (1975) (129)
The Politics of Observation: Cerebral Anatomy and Social Interests in the Edinburgh Phrenology Disputes (1979) (118)
“The Mind Is Its Own Place”: Science and Solitude in Seventeenth-Century England (1991) (115)
“A Scholar and a Gentleman”: The Problematic Identity of the Scientific Practitioner in Early Modern England (1991) (103)
Prosopography as a Research Tool in History of Science: The British Scientific Community 1700–1900 (1974) (101)
Why the public ought to understand science-in-the-making (1992) (97)
Of Gods and Kings: Natural Philosophy and Politics in the Leibniz-Clarke Disputes (1981) (92)
Science, Nature and Control: Interpreting Mechanics' Institutes (1977) (86)
Following Scientists Around (1988) (83)
The Ivory Tower: The History of a Figure of Speech and Its Cultural Uses (2012) (83)
The Audience for Science in Eighteenth Century Edinburgh (1974) (78)
Trusting George Cheyne: Scientific Expertise, Common Sense, and Moral Authority in Early Eighteenth-Century Dietetic Medicine (2003) (71)
Property, Patronage, and the Politics of Science: The Founding of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1974) (67)
Science Incarnate: Historical Embodiments of Natural Knowledge (1999) (56)
Understanding the Merton Thesis (1988) (56)
Descartes the doctor: rationalism and its therapies (2000) (55)
Establishing the new science: the experience of the early Royal Society (1990) (53)
Social uses of science (1980) (45)
‘You are what you eat’: historical changes in ideas about food and identity† (2014) (44)
Hyperprofessionalism and the Crisis of Readership in the History of Science (2005) (44)
Head and Hand: Rhetorical Resources in British Pedagogical Writing, 1770-1850 (1976) (43)
A taste of science: Making the subjective objective in the California wine world (2016) (39)
Who Was J. Robert Oppenheimer? (2000) (37)
How to Eat Like a Gentleman: Dietetics and Ethics in Early Modern England (2003) (37)
The Tastes of Wine: Towards a Cultural History (2012) (35)
Robert Boyle and Mathematics: Reality, Representation, and Experimental Practice (1988) (34)
Talking History: Reflections on Discourse Analysis (1984) (31)
Expertise, Common Sense, and the Atkins Diet (2007) (29)
The Philosopher and the Chicken: On the Dietetics of Disembodied Knowledge (1998) (29)
The Pottery Philosophical Society, 1819-1835: an Examination of the Cultural Uses of Provincial Science (1972) (27)
Rarely Pure and Never Simple: Talking about Truth (1999) (24)
Science and the Public (2020) (23)
Biology, medicine and society 1840–1940 (1982) (22)
Proverbial Economies (2001) (22)
Science and the Modern World (2000) (19)
Who was Robert Hooke (1989) (19)
World in the Balance:: The Historic Quest for an Absolute System of Measurement by Robert Crease (2012) (18)
Medical minds, surgical bodies:corporeality and the doctors (1998) (18)
The Image of the Man of Science (2003) (18)
Personal development and intellectual biography: the case of Robert Boyle (1993) (18)
Experiment, science teaching, and the new history and sociology of science (1983) (17)
The Way We Trust Now: The Authority of Science and the Character of the Scientist (2004) (16)
How to live forever: lessons of history (2000) (16)
Artificial phenomena (1991) (10)
A methodological survey (2005) (9)
Kuhn’s Structure : A Moment in Modern Naturalism (2015) (9)
THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH: A STUDY OF THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF HANOVERIAN SCIENCE (1971) (8)
Information sources in the history of science and medicine (1985) (8)
Changing Tastes: How Foods Tasted in the Early Modern Period and How They Taste Now: The Hans Rausing Lecture, 2011 (2011) (8)
Who is the Industrial Scientist? Commentary from Academic Sociology and from the Shop-Floor in the United States, ca. 1900-ca. 1970 (2004) (7)
Michael Foster and the Cambridge School of Physiology. The Scientific Enterprise in Late Victorian Society. Gerald L. Geison (1980) (7)
O Henry (1954) (7)
A Course in the Social History of Science (1980) (7)
A Man of Science (1999) (6)
LE TECHNICIEN INVISIBLE (1991) (6)
A view of scientific thought. (1980) (6)
Nature and Control : Interpreting Mechanics ' Institutes (2007) (6)
The Figural and the Literal: Problems of Language in the History of Science and Philosophy, 1630-1800. Andrew E. Benjamin , Geoffrey N. Cantor , John R. R. Christie (1988) (6)
La révolution scientifique (1998) (5)
Lives after death (2006) (5)
On Bad History: (1999) (5)
Truth and Credibility: Science and the Social Study of Science (2001) (5)
Essay Review: Licking Leibniz: Philosophers at War: The Quarrel between Newton and Leibniz (1981) (5)
Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar, Laboratory life. The social construction of scientific facts , Beverly Hills, Calif., and London, Sage Publications, 1979. 8vo, pp. 272, illus., £1 1.25 (£5.50 paperback). (1981) (5)
What is the History of Science (1988) (5)
Scientific Controversy as Moral/Political Discourse: From Restoration Science to Sociobiology@@@Storm over Biology: Essays on Science, Sentiment, and Public Policy.@@@The Obedience Experiments: A Case Study of a Controversy in Social Science.@@@Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle and the Exper (1987) (5)
Hard science, soft science: A political history of a disciplinary array (2022) (4)
Where is the Edge of Objectivity? (1977) (4)
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari (2017) (3)
Renown in theory (1988) (3)
Vegetable love: the history of vegetarianism. (2007) (3)
Man with a plan: Herbert Spencer's theory of everything. (2007) (3)
Weber’s Science as a Vocation: A moment in the history of “is” and “ought” (2019) (3)
Why Was “Custom a Second Nature” in Early Modern Medicine? (2019) (3)
Was Luigi Cornaro a Dietary Expert? (2018) (3)
Malaise of British science (1987) (2)
Scientific Babel: The Language of Science from the Fall of Latin to the Rise of English by Michel Gordin (2015) (2)
Breakfast at Buck’s (2020) (2)
Book Review:The Rational and the Social James Robert Brown (1992) (2)
Science (2005) (2)
Mertonian concessions. (1993) (2)
Sick city: maps and mortality in the time of cholera. (2006) (2)
Which science book should the next US president read? (2008) (2)
The art of persuasion (2007) (2)
Response to Pinnick (1999) (2)
Citation for Mary Douglas, 1994 Bernal Prize Recipient (1995) (1)
Commerce at the Helm? (2011) (1)
Post ) constructivism on Technoscience (2013) (1)
Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World by Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton and Matthew Mauger (2015) (1)
AHR Reviews of Books: 149A Review Category: Europe: Early Modern and Modern DÁNIEL MARGÓCSY. Commercial Visions: Science, Trade, and Visual Culture in the Dutch (2017) (1)
Enlightenment, Modernity and Science: Geographies of Scientific Culture and Improvement in Georgian England. By Paul A. Elliott (London, I. B. Tauris, 2010) 358 pp. $99.00 (2012) (1)
Book Review:Philosophers and Provincials: The Yorkshire Philosophical Society from 1822 to 1844 A. D. Orange (1975) (1)
DAVID N. LIVINGSTONE, Science, Space and Hermeneutics. Hettner-Lectures, 5. Heidelberg: Department of Geography, University of Heidelberg, 2002. Pp. 116. ISBN 3-88570-505-2. No price given (paperback). (2003) (1)
Making Art / Discovering Science (2018) (1)
The Multifarious Mr Banks: From Botany Bay to Kew, the Natural Historian Who Shaped the World by Toby Musgrave (2020) (1)
The journey to Enlightenment (2003) (1)
Book reviews (1975) (1)
8. How to be Antiscientific (2019) (1)
Julian Martin, Francis Bacon, the State, and the Reform of Natural Philosophy . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xiii + 236. ISBN 0-521-382491. £35,00, $49.95. (1993) (1)
Science and Society (1973) (1)
Churchill's Bomb: A Hidden History of Science, War and Politics by Graham Farmelo (2013) (1)
Book Review:Scientific Growth: Essays on the Social Organization and Ethos of Science Joseph Ben-David, Gad Freudenthal (1992) (1)
Understanding the Merton Thesis The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters (2007) (0)
Command and Control by Eric Schlosser (2014) (0)
A Modern History of the Stomach by Ian Miller (2011) (0)
General - Science, Technology and Society: A Cross-Disciplinary Perspective . Edited by Ina Spiegel-Rösing and Derek de Solla Price. London and Beverly Hills: Sage, 1977. Pp. xi + 607. £20.00. (1979) (0)
Notes on Contributors (1974) (0)
Symposium on History of Science Today: Tradition and Change Uppsala, Sweden, 18-19 November 1982 (1983) (0)
The Social Dimensions of Science. Ernan McMullin (1993) (0)
VIII. The Polity of Science: Conclusions (2011) (0)
THE TRIUMPHAL MARCH OF A PARADIGM: A CASE STUDY OF THE POPULARIZATION OF NEWTONIAN SCIENCE* (2008) (0)
Book Review:The Library of Robert Hooke: The Scientific Book Trade of Restoration England Leona Rostenberg (1991) (0)
5. Who Is the Industrial Scientist? The View from the Managers (2019) (0)
Essays Comment on Neil McLaughlin / 3 by Neil Gross (2019) (0)
Book Review:The Machinery Question and the Making of Political Economy, 1815-1848 Maxine Berg (1981) (0)
Malthus: The Life and Legacies of an Untimely Prophet by Robert Mayhew (2014) (0)
Adolphe Quetelet, Social Physics and the Average Men of Science, 1796–1874 by Kevin Donnelly (2017) (0)
Reviews: Science in the Service of Empire: Joseph Banks, the British State and the Uses of Science in the Age of Revolution (2000) (0)
Book Review:The Origins and Nature of the Scottish Enlightenment R. H. Campbell, Andrew S. Skinner (1983) (0)
Traditions in the perception of science. (1978) (0)
The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe by Michael Gordin (2012) (0)
Philosophers at War: The Quarrel between Newton and Leibnzz by A. Rupert Hall (1981) (0)
Pedagogical Writing, 1770-1850 (1976) (0)
Vacation reading (2010) (0)
Enlightenment, Modernity and Science: Geographies of Scientific Culture and Improvement in Georgian England (review) (2012) (0)
Renaissance and Seventeenth Century (1981) (0)
The Experimental Philosophy and Its Institutions (2008) (0)
Instruments of the Revolution (2000) (0)
Haeckel's Embriyos: Images, Evolution and Fraud by Nick Hopwood (2016) (0)
Book reviews (2001) (0)
The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age by David N. Schwartz (2018) (0)
The Polity of Science (2014) (0)
Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (1977) (0)
Charting an Empire: Geography at the English Universities, 1580-1620 (review) (1999) (0)
The spring, pressure and weight of the air (2005) (0)
Science and Anti-Science. Gerald Holton (1994) (0)
Book Review:Henry Stubbe, Radical Protestantism and the Early Enlightenment James R. Jacob (1984) (0)
Book Reviews (2007) (0)
After We Die: The Life and Times of the Human Cadaver by Norman Cantor (2011) (0)
Charles Webster (editor), Biology, medicine and society 1840–1940 , Cambridge University Press, 1981, 8vo, pp. ix, 344, £22.50. (1982) (0)
Final Comment (2017) (0)
Alchemy and Parapsychology (1983) (0)
1. Knowledge and Virtue: TheWay We Live Now (2019) (0)
Letters to the Editor (1996) (0)
The Turner Collection of the History of Mathematics at the University of Keele (1973) (0)
Book Review:Science and Society in Restoration England Michael Hunter (1982) (0)
Book Review:Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance. Donald MacKenzie (1991) (0)
23. Barbarians at Which Gates (2019) (0)
Matters of Fact (2013) (0)
Anne Goldgar, Impolite Learning: Conduct and Community in the Republic of Letters, 1680–1750 . New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, 1995. Pp. xv + 395. ISBN 0-300-05359-2. £25. (1996) (0)
The Scientific Revolution: The History of a Term (2013) (0)
Conference Reports (1980) (0)
Hand : Rhetorical Resources in British Pedagogical (2007) (0)
Tom Sorrell. Hobbes (The Arguments of the Philosophers, series ed. Ted Honderich). London and New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986. Pp. xii + 163. ISBN 0-7100-9845-6. £14.95. (1987) (0)
Peter Dear (ed.). The Literary Structure of Scientific Argument: Historical Studies . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. ISBN 0-8122-8185-3. No price given. (1992) (0)
The Rhinoceros and the Megatherium: An Essay in Natural History by Juan Pimentel, translated by Peter Mason (2018) (0)
William Petty and the Ambitions of Political Arithmetic [Spanish] (2012) (0)
Michael Polanyi and His Generation by Mary Jo Nye (2011) (0)
6. The Scientist and the Civic Virtues: The Moral Life of Organized Science (2019) (0)
Book Review:The Uses of Science in the Age of Newton John G. Burke (1985) (0)
Words of wisdom (2005) (0)
BOOKS, 1975–1987 (2005) (0)
Pioneer of Change (1971) (0)
Signs of the Times (1997) (0)
Truth and Credibility in Science (2015) (0)
The Wisdom of "Mom" (2008) (0)
Skewering myths about relations between science and religion Ronald L Numbers (2009) (0)
Steven Shapin reviews ‘Haeckel’s Embryos’ by Nick Hopwood · LRB 5 May 2016 (2016) (0)
Paula Findlen. Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy. (Studies on the History of Society and Culture, number 20.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1994. Pp. xvii, 449. $55.00 (1996) (0)
Nuclear Rites: A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War.By Hugh Gusterson. University of California Press, 1996. 351 pp. $39.95 (1997) (0)
Wilda C. Anderson. Between the Library and the Laboratory: the Language of Chemistry in Eighteenth-Century France . Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984. Pp. vii + 190. ISBN 0-8018-3229-2. £20.00, $22.50. (1986) (0)
Jonathan Harwood, 'The Race-Intelligence Controversy: A Sociological Approach: II — "External" Factors' (1977) (0)
Crafting Science: A Sociohistory of the Quest for the Genetics of Cancer; Between Bench and Bedside: Science, Healing, and Interleukin-2 in a Cancer Ward (1997) (0)
3. The Moral Equivalence of the Scientist: A History of the Very Idea (2019) (0)
STEPHEN GAUKROGER, Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early-Modern Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xii+249. ISBN 0-521-80536-8. £14·95, $21·95 (paperback). (2002) (0)
2. From Calling to Job: Nature, Truth,Method, and Vocation from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Centuries (2019) (0)
Matthew L. Jones, The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution: Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the Cultivation of Virtue. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xvii+384. ISBN 0-226-40954-6. $65.00, £46.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-226-40955-4. $27.50, £17.50 (paperback). (2007) (0)
Trust Me, I'm a Scientist (2004) (0)
Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome by Venki Ramakrishnan (2019) (0)
Book reviews (1998) (0)
Steven Shapin and Barry Barnes, 'Science, Nature and Control: Interpreting Mechanics' Institutes' (1977) (0)
The Social Construction of What?By Ian Hacking. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. x+261. $16.95 (paper). (2001) (0)
Noretta Koertge (ed.), New Dictionary of Scientific Biography . 8 vols. Detroit, MI: Charles Scribner's Sons, Gale/Cengage Learning, 2008. ISBN 978-0684313207. $995.00 (hardback). (2009) (0)
The Restless Clock: A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick by Jessica Riskin (2016) (0)
English Science Policy (1973) (0)
Review Essays : Truth, Trust, and Gentlemen Shapin on Boyle (1997) (0)
The Female Animal : Medical and Biological Views of Woman and Her Role in Nineteenth-Century America (2007) (0)
Trust Boyle (1995) (0)
SIC volume 2 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (1988) (0)
Understanding the Merton Thesis The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters (2007) (0)

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