Interdisciplinarity : reconfigurations of the social and natural sciences / edited by Andrew Barry and Georgina Born.
| Other author | Barry, Andrew, 1960- |
| Other author | Born, Georgina. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2013. |
| Description | 1 online resource. |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Series | Culture, economy and the social Culture, economy and the social. ^A1054427 |
| Contents | Cover; Interdisciplinarity; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Interdisciplinarity: Reconfigurations of the social and natural sciences; 2 How Disciplines Look; 3 Inter that Discipline!; 4 Fields and Fallows: A political history of STS; 5 Unexpected Consequences and an Unanticipated Outcome; 6 Consuming Anthropology; 7 Where Natural and Social Science Meet? Reflections on an experiment in geographical practice; 8 Multiple Environments: Accountability, integration and ontology; 9 Ontology and Antidisciplinarity. |
| Contents | 10 Logics of Interdisciplinarity: The case of medical humanities; 11 Art-Science: From public understanding to public experiment; Index. |
| Abstract | The idea that research should become more interdisciplinary has become commonplace. According to influential commentators, the unprecedented complexity of problems such as climate change or the social implications of biomedicine demand interdisciplinary efforts integrating both the social and natural sciences. In this context, the question of whether a given knowledge practice is too disciplinary, or interdisciplinary, or not disciplinary enough has become an issue for governments, research policy makers and funding agencies. Interdisciplinarity, in short, has emerged as a key political pre. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Interdisciplinarity. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2013 0415578922 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9781136658389 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 1136658386 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 9780203584279 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 0203584279 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 0415578922 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 9780415578929 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 9781299716643 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 1299716644 (electronic bk.) |
| Standard identifier# | 40022523824 |
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