Acknowledgments xi
Introduction / Karine Chemla and Evelyn Fox Keller 1
Part I. Stating the Problem: Cultures without Culturation
1. On Invokcing "Culture" in the Analysis of Behavior in Financial Markets / Donald MacKenzie 29
2. Cultural Difference and Sameness: Historiographic Reflections on Histories of Physics in Modern Japan / Kenji Ito 49
3. The Cultural Politics of an African AIDS Vaccine: The Vanhivax Controversy in Cameroon, 2001-2011 / Guillaume Lachenal 69
4. Worrying about Essentialism: From Feminist Theory to Epistemological Cultures / Evelyn Fox Keller 99
Part II. Distinguishing the Many Dimensions of Encultured Practice
5. Hybrid Devices: Embodiments of Culture in Biomedical Engineering / Nancy J. Nesessian 117
6. Glass Ceilings and Sticky Floors: Drawing New Ontologies / Mary S. Morgan 145
7. Modes of Exchange: The Culture and Politics of Public Demonstrations / Claude Rosental 170
8. Styles in Mathematical Practice / David Rabouin 196
Part III. The Making of Scientific Cultures
9. Historicizing Culture: A Revaluation of Early Modern Science and Culture / Koen Vermeir 227
10. From Quarry to Paper: Cuvier's Three Epistemological Cultures / Bruno Belhoste 250
11. Cultures of Experimentation / Hans-Jörg Rheinberger 278
12. The People's War against Earthquakes: Cultures of Mass Science in Mao's China / Fa-ti Fan 296
Part IV. What Is at Stake?
13. E Uno Plures? Unity and Diversity in Galois Theory, 1832-1900 / Caroline Ehrhardt 327
14. Changing Mathematical Cultures, Conceptual History, and the Circulation of Knowledge: A Case Study Based on Mathematical Sources from Ancient China / Karine Chemla 352
Contributors 399
Index 403