Placing or Replacing the Laboratory in the History of Science?

Gooday, Graeme

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“…En algunos casos, como el de la maestra Martina Casiano Mayor (1881-1958), los trabajos preparatorios fueron continuados con otros proyectos de investigación que sirvieron para preparar con mayores garantías de aprovechamiento futuras estancias y viajes científicos en el extranjero que realizó como pensionada de la JAE. Este es un ejemplo de cómo, en ocasiones, las fronteras o límites de algunos laboratorios se hicieron más "permeables" y permitieron la colaboración científica entre expertos y profanos (Gooday, 2008). Otro ejemplo de formación científica de mujeres en el laboratorio de Casares vinculado a la JAE es el de Trinidad Salinas, una estudiante que colaboró con Casares en la década de 1930 realizando trabajos que le permitirían doctorarse en farmacia en 1934.…”

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La colaboración científica y los espacios de la química: un estudio de caso español en la primera mitad del siglo XX

Suay–Matallana

2014

Rev. esp. doc. cient.

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Cómo citar este artículo/Citation: Suay-Matallana, I. (2014). La colaboración científica y los espacios de la química: un estudio de caso español en la primera mitad del siglo XX. Revista Española de Documentación Científica, 37(4): e063. doi: http:// dx.doi.org/10.3989/redc.2014.4.1163Resumen: Las escuelas y grupos de investigación científica (research schools) pueden ser analizados desde diferentes disciplinas, como la sociología o la historia de la ciencia, con el fin de estudiar los cambios y la evolución de la ciencia y sus paradigmas, la profesionalización de determinadas actividades científicas, los estilos de liderazgo científico, el surgimiento de especialidades científicas y la intensidad de las relaciones científicas.Este artículo considera el caso del químico español José Casares Gil (1866-1961) para estudiar históricamente la relación entre escuelas de investigación, espacios de la ciencia y colaboración científica. José Casares dirigió varios laboratorios universitarios e institucionales como el laboratorio central de aduanas y los de análisis químico de las facultades de farmacia de Barcelona y Madrid. En ellos entró en contacto con numerosos estudiantes, colegas, industriales y miembros de otros organismos. La aproximación a esos espacios permitirá discutir si Casares logró formar con éxito una escuela de investigación científica.Palabras clave: Colaboración científica; escuelas de investigación; espacios de química; José Casares Gil; siglo XX; España. Scientific collaboration and sites of chemistry: a Spanish case study in the first half of the 20th centuryAbstract: The study of schools of scientific research and research groups has been approached from different disciplines, such as sociology or the history of science, with the aim of analyzing the changes and evolution of science and its paradigms, the professionalization of scientific activities, scientific styles, emergence of scientific specialties and the intensity of scientific relationships. This paper considers the role of José Casares Gil (1866Gil ( -1961 for producing a historical study on the relation between research schools, scientific sites and scientific collaboration. José Casares ran several university and institutional laboratories, such as the central customs laboratory of Madrid, and the chemical analysis laboratories of the faculties of pharmacy in Barcelona and Madrid. These spaces allowed him to be in contact with many students, colleagues, industrialists and members of other institutions. By considering these spaces this paper will discuss whether Casares succeeded in creating a research school.

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La colaboración científica y los espacios de la química: un estudio de caso español en la primera mitad del siglo XX

Suay–Matallana

2014

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“…This definition also shares with laboratory studies a stress on the interventionist character of the laboratory and the idea that the laboratory is an assemblage of technologies and practice. But my definition is analytical and it does not try, as historians do, to capture every historical notion of the term laboratory (Gooday, 2008). More specifically, it allows one to differentiate laboratories from rhetorical invocations of the term laboratory.…”

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Laboratizing and de-laboratizing the world

Guggenheim

2012

History of the Human Sciences

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How has sociology framed places of knowledge production and what is the specific power of the laboratory for this history? This article looks in three steps at how sociology and Science and Technology Studies (STS) have historically framed the world as laboratory. First, in early sociology, the laboratory was an important metaphor to conceive of sociology as a scientific enterprise. In the 1950s, the trend reversed and with the emergence of a 'qualitative sociology', sociology was seen in opposition to laboratory work. With the ascent of laboratory studies, the laboratory perspective was again applied to many fields, including sociology itself. Based on a definition of a laboratory as aiming at placeless knowledge and being inconsequential this article argues that the two waves of laboratorization were metaphorical and did not really turn the world into a laboratory. Instead, two alternative concepts, those of the unilatory and the locatory, are proposed to gain a more precise understanding of some of these metaphorical uses of the term 'laboratory'.

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“…Present day laboratory studies do not solely aspire to provide a micro‐history of the lab. They try to define the lab as an embedded institution (Gooday, 2008; Kohler, 2008). I believe the study of ‘embedded’ commemorative practices will not only allow a glimpse of what went on in the lab, but also of how the lab related to the outer world.…”

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Dogs and Coca-Cola: Commemorative Practices as part of Laboratory Culture at the Heymans Institute Ghent, 1902-1970

Bosstraeten¹

2011

Centaurus

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This article investigates the different dimensions and the attributed meaning of commemoration as essential parts of laboratory culture. Rather than a historical ethnography of commemorative rites, commemoration is studied as a genuine component of laboratory life. The case study focuses on the Heymans Institute of Ghent University, Belgium, from 1902 to 1970. Using the categories celebrations, publications and iconography it will become clear that the Heymans lab and by extension many other laboratories performed a multitude of commemorative practices all with their specific function both inside and outside the lab. Not only public celebrations for the successful laboratory director, but also, for example, birthday parties are taken into account. How did these practices evolve throughout time? What images did they convey and what did they mean for the laboratory? The answer to the questions in hand will contribute to a further understanding not only of the concept of commemorative practices but also of laboratory life and ‐ culture in general.

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Placing or Replacing the Laboratory in the History of Science?

Cited by 53 publications

References 21 publications

La colaboración científica y los espacios de la química: un estudio de caso español en la primera mitad del siglo XX

La colaboración científica y los espacios de la química: un estudio de caso español en la primera mitad del siglo XX

Laboratizing and de-laboratizing the world

Dogs and Coca-Cola: Commemorative Practices as part of Laboratory Culture at the Heymans Institute Ghent, 1902-1970

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