Cyborgs & Citadels: Anthropological Interventions in Emerging Sciences and Technologies

324 Pages·1997·56.149 MB·English

by  Gary Lee Downey, Joseph Dumit

cyborgs &
CITADELS
f>ublicnionoltheAIMncffSttlinMSeritslsNCMpouiblebygenetOUIWpPOl't
fflMII the 5rown foundltion, Inc., of Mouston, Tou.
Gougle
UNIVERSITY F MIC GAN
SCHOOL OF AMERICAN RESEARCH ADVANCED SEMINAR SERIES
DOUGLAS W. SCHWARTZ, General Editor
Google Original from
Digitized by
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
CYBORGS & CITADELS /
Contributors
GARY LEE DOWNEY/ Center for Science and Technology Studies
Virginia Tech
JOSEPH DUMIT / Department of Social Medicine
Harvard Medical School
DONNA HARAWAY/ History of Consciousness Program
University of California, Santa Cruz
DEBORAH HEATH/ Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Lewis and Clark College
DAVID J. HESS/ Department of Science and Technology Studies
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
FREDERICK KLEMMER / Department of Political Science
University of Hawaii
JUAN C. LUCENA / Science, Technology, and Globalization Program
Embry-Riddle University
EMILY MARTIN / Department of Anthropology
Princeton University
LAURY OAKS / Department of Anthropology
Johns Hopkins University
PAUL RABINOW / Department of Anthropology
University of California, Berkeley
RAYNA RAPP / Department of Anthropology
New School for Social Research
KAREN-SUE TAUSSIG/ Department of Social Medicine
Harvard Medical School
SHARON TRAWEEK / Department of History
University of California, Los Angeles
ARIANE VAN DER STRATEN / Johns Hopkins University
SARAH WILLIAMS/ Women's Studies Program
Evergreen College
Google Original from
Digitized by
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Google Original from
Digitized by
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

School of American Research Press
Post Office Box 2188
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-2188
Director of Publications: Joan K. O'Donnell
Editor: Jo Ann Baldinger
Art Director: Deborah Rynn Post
Indexer: Douglas J. Easton
Typesetter: G&S Typesetters
Printer: Thomson-Shore, Inc.
Distributed by the University of Washington Press
library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cyborgs & citadels : anthropological interventions in emerging
sciences and technologies / Gary Lee Downey and Joseph Dumit., eds.
p. cm. - (School of American Research advanced seminar series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-933452-96-9 (cloth). - ISBN 0-933452-97-7 (pbk.)
1. Science- Social aspects. 2. Technology-Social aspects.
3. Medicine-Social aspects. 4. Cyborgs. 5. Ethnology.
I. Downey, Gary Lee. II. Dumit, Joseph. ill. Series:
Ql75.5.C93 1997
306.4'5-dc21 97-20296
CIP
Cl 1997 by the School of American Research. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the
United States of America. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 97-20296. Inter
national Standard Book Numbers 0-933452-96-9 (cloth) and 0-933452-97-7 (paper).
First edition.
Cover illustration by Deborah Rynn Post.
Google Original from
Digitized by
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
,.... , ..• •• 1
..... ' . .
Preface/
3
1 / Locating and Intervening
An Introduction / 5
Gary Lee Downey and Joseph Dumit
2 / Real-Time Fetus
The Role of the Sonogram in the Age of Monitored Reproduction / 31
Rayna Rapp
3 / AIDS, JCnowledge, and Discrimination in the Inner City
An Anthropological Analysis of the Experiences of Injection Drug Users / 49
Emily Martin, Laury Oaks, Karen-Sue Taussig, and Ariane van der Straten
4 / Bodies, Antibodies, and Modest Interventions /
67
Deborah Heath
5 / A Digital Image of the Category of the Person
PET Scanning and Objective Self-Fashioning / 83
Joseph Dumit
6 / Iconic Devices
Toward an Ethnography of Physics Images / 103
Sharon Traweek
Google Original from
Digitized by
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
CONTE NT S
7 / Engineering Selves
Hiring In to a Contested Field of Education / 117
Gary Lee Downey and Juan C. Lucena
8 / If You're Thinking of Living in STS
A Guide for the Perplexed / 143
David J. Hess
9 / Ethnographic Fetishism or Cyborg Anthropology?
Human Scientists, Rebellious Rats, and Their Mazes at El Delirio and in the Land
of the Long White Cloud / 165
Sarah Williams, with Frederick Klemmer
10 / Science as a Practice
The Higher Indifference and Mediated Curiosity/ 193
Paul Rabinow
11 / Mice into Wormholes
A Comment on the Nature of No Nature / 209
Donna J. Haraway
Corridor Talk / 245
Gary Lee Downey, Joseph Dumit, and Sharon Traweek
References / 265
Index/ 301
Illustrations
9.1. E-mail sent to SAR seminar participants/ 178
11.1. Stalking Cancer / 223
Tables
11.1. Percent Share of World Technoscientific Literature/ 215
Google Original from
Digitized by
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
cyborgs
&
CITADELS
Google Original from
Digitized by
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Google Original from
Digitized by
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN