{"product_id":"9781478030966","title":"Laboratory Epistemologies : A Hands-on Perspective by Jenny Boulboulle","description":"In Laboratory Epistemologies: A Hands-On Perspective, Jenny Boulboull? examines the significance of hands-on experiences in contemporary life sciences laboratories. Addressing the relationship between contemplation and manipulation in epistemology, Boulboull? combines participant observations in molecular genetics labs and microbiological cleanrooms with a longue dur?e study of the history and philosophy of science. She radically rereads Descartes's key epistemological text Meditations on First Philosophy, reframing the philosopher as a hands-on knowledge maker. With this reading, Boulboull? subverts the pervasive modern conception of the disembodied knower and puts the hands-on experimenter at the heart of life sciences research. In so doing, she contributes a theoretical model for understanding how life processes on cellular and molecular levels are manually produced in today's techno-scientific spaces. By reassessing the Cartesian legacy and arguing that epistemology should be grounded in the standpoint of a hands-on practitioner, Boulboull? offers the philosophical and historical foundation to understand and study contemporary life sciences research as multisensory embodied practices.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56301051707765,"sku":"9781478030966","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781478030966.jpg?v=1762789999","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781478030966","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}