Ethnographic Studies of Technical and Scientific Communities

Dubinskas, F., ed. Making Time: Ethnographies of High-Tech Organizations. Philadelphia, PA, Temple University Press, 1988.

Forsythe, Diana E., "The Construction of Work in Artificial Intelligence," Science, Technology and Human Values, 18 (4), 1993, 460 - 479.

Forsythe, Diana E., "Blaming the User in Medical Informatics: The Cultural Nature of Scientific Practice." In David Hess and Linda Layne, eds., Knowledge and Society. Volume 9. The Anthropology of Science and Technology. Greenwich, CN: JAI, 1992.

Hakken, David with Barbara Andrews. Computing Myths, Class Realities: An Ethnography of Technology and Working People in Sheffield, England. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1993.

Hess, David, "Introduction: The New Ethnography and the Anthropology of Science and Technology." In Knowledge and Society: The Anthropology of Science and Technology, D. Hess and L. Layne, editors, pp. 1 - 26, Greenwich, CT: JAI.

Rapp, Rayna. 1988 "The Power of 'Positive' Diagnosis: Medical and Maternal Discourses on Amniocentesis." In Karen L. Michaelson (ed.), Childbirth in America: Anthropological Perspectives. South Hadley, Mass.: Bergin and Garvey.

Rapp, Rayna. 1990 "Constructing Amniocentesis: Maternal and Medical Discourses." In Faye Ginsburg and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing (eds.), Uncertain Terms: Negotiating Gender in American Culture. Boston: Beacon Press.

Rapp, Rayna. 1991 "Moral Pioneers: Women, Men, and Fetuses on a Frontier of Reproductive Technology." In Micaela di Leonardo (ed.), Gender at the Crossroads of Knowledge. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

Suchman, Lucy. 1992. "Technologies of Accountability: On Lizards and Airplanes." In Technology in Working Order: Studies of Work, Interaction, and Technology, G. Button (ed.), London, Routledge.

Traweek, Sharon, Beamtimes and Lifetimes: The World of High Energy Physicists, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 1988.

Zuboff, Shoshana, In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power, New York, Basic, 1984.



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