Ways of Knowing

Discusses the historical development of science, technology and medicine in Western Europe and North America from the Renaissance to the present. Identifies four principle ways of knowing within specific periods:natural history in the eighteenth centuryanalysis following the French Revolutionexperiment in the epoch of modernismthe current presence of technoscience. Balances the historical exposition of natural magic and natural theology with a philosophical interpretation of the Scientific Revolution and reflective comments on Foucault and Collingwood. Strikes a balance between theoretical discussion and empirical illustration. Redefines the geography of science, technology and medicine.

Acknowledgements
A note to the reader
Ways of knowing: an introduction	p. 1
World-readings: the meanings of nature and of science	p. 33
Natural history	p. 60
Analysis and the rationalisation of production	p. 83
The elements of bodies, earth and society	p. 106
Experimentalism and invention	p. 135
Industries, universities and the technoscientific complexes	p. 162
Technoscience and public understandings: the British case c.2000	p. 189
Bibliography	p. 226
Index	p. 260
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