Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts

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What questions remain unanswered?

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The provided passages do not contain information about what questions remain unanswered within the book "Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts."

The passages describe the book's approach, stating that it presents laboratory science as an anthropological study of the scientist's culture [1]. It also mentions that the book examines how the social world of the laboratory produces scientific texts and how scientific reality is defined by statements considered too costly to change at a given time [1]. The passages highlight the book's basis in fieldwork at Roger Guillemin's laboratory and its connection to the sociology of modern sciences and laboratory studies in the history of science [1]. However, they do not specify any unanswered questions addressed by the book.

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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…
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