EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION xi
4. EDITOR'S NOTE xxvii
5. CHAPTER ONE Blaming the User in Medical Informatics: The Cultural Nature of Scientific Practice 1
6. CHAPTER TWO The Construction of Work in Artificial Intelligence 16
7. CHAPTER THREE Engineering Knowledge: The Construction of Knowledge in Artificial Intelligence 35
8. CHAPTER FOUR Knowing Engineers? A Response to Forsythe 59
9. CHAPTER FIVE STS (Re)constructs Anthropology: Reply to Fleck 66
10. CHAPTER SIX Artificial Intelligence Invents Itself: Collective Identity and Boundary Maintenance in an Emergent Scientific Discipline 75
11. CHAPTER SEVEN New Bottles, Old Wine: Hidden Cultural Assumptions in a Computerized Explanation System for Migraine Sufferers 93
12. CHAPTER EIGHT Ethics and Politics of Studying Up in Technoscience 119
13. CHAPTER NINE Studying Those Who Study Us: Medical Informatics Appropriates Ethnography 132
14. CHAPTER TEN "It's Just a Matter of Common Sense": Ethnography as Invisible Work 146
15. CHAPTER ELEVEN Disappearing Women in the Social World of Computing 163
16. CHAPTER TWELVE George and Sandra's Daughter, Robert's Girl: Doing Ethnographic Research in My Parents' Field 183
17. APPENDIX: ADDITIONAL PUBLICATIONS BY DIANA FORSYTHE 197
18. NOTES 201
19. BIBLIOGRAPHY 213
20. INDEX 229
21. Writing Science 241