Synthesized answer
The provided passages describe "Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts" as a work that presents laboratory science skeptically, using an anthropological approach to the scientist's culture [Passage 1]. The authors study how the social world of the laboratory produces scientific "texts" [Passage 1].
The key concept is that scientific facts are constructed through social processes within the laboratory, leading to statements that are considered too costly to change for the time being [Passage 1]. The book is based on fieldwork and aims to link the sociology of modern science with the history of science [Passage 1]. The passages do not elaborate further on other key concepts.
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Title: Laboratory Life by Bruno Latour, Steve Woolgar Description: This highly original work presents laboratory science in a deliberately skeptical way: as an anthropological approach to the culture of the scientist. Drawing on recent work in literary criticism, the authors study how the social world of the laboratory produces papers and other "texts,"' and how the scientific vision of reality becomes that set of statements considered, for the time being, too expensive to change. The book is based on field work done by Bruno Latour in Roger Guillemin's laboratory at the Salk Institute and…