Introduction
Kristin Asdal, Brita Brenna, Ingunn Moser
The Politics of Interventions
A History of STS .........................................................................................................7
Part 1: Networks and Critiques
Michel Callon
Some Elements of a Sociology of Translation
Domestication of the Scallops and the Fishermen of St. Brieuc Bay .................................. 57
Susan Leigh Star
Power, Technology and the Phenomenology of Conventions
On Being Allergic to Onions ..................................................................................... 79
Donna Haraway
Situated Knowledges
The Science Question in Feminism and The Privilege of Partial Perspective ...................... 109
Part 2: Modest Interventions
Deborah Heath
Bodies, Antibodies, and Modest Interventions ................................................. 135
Ingunn Moser and John Law
Good Passages, Bad Passages ......................................................................... 157
Marianne de Laet and Annemarie Mol
The Zimbabwe Bush Pump
Mechanics of a Fluid Technology ............................................................................. 179
Vicky Singleton
Training and Resuscitating Healthy Citizens in the
English New Public Health
– Normativities in Process ....................................................................................... 221
Part 3: From the Laboratory to Politics and Economics
Bruno Latour
To Modernize or to Ecologise? That is the Question ........................................ 249
Michel Callon
Actor-Network Theory
– The Market Test .................................................................................................. 273
Andrew Barry
Political Invention .............................................................................................. 287
Kristin Asdal
Re-Inventing Politics of the State
Science and the Politics of Contestation ..................................................................... 309
Epilogue ............................................................................................................ 327
Ingunn Moser
Interventions in History
Maureen McNeil and John Law in Conversation on the Emergence, Trajectories and
Interferences of Science and Technology Studies (STS) ................................................. 329
List of contributors ............................................................................................. 351