science studies

is a study that shows how scientific work can be shown to be similar to non-scientific work.

the conclusion, which is surely by now unremarkable, is that scientific work can be shown to be similar to non-science' (Woolgar 1982:485).

is not a field that sets out to show how science is false or iniquitous. Rather, it shows that science operates from particular perspectives, the denial of which ends up rendering invisible the political and moral consequences of its practices.

What is at stake in the politics of making transparencies is the politics of perspective. It is not that science assumes a perspective which is seen to be iniquitous or false by science studies scholars. It is instead the denial that such a perspective is a perspective which is seen to carry the most significant political and moral consequences, for it is this denial that attempts to render invisible and inaccessible to scrutiny or questioning exactly how that perspective works, what it includes and excludes, and how that inclusion or exclusion is itself a cultural effect' (Franklin 1996: 151)

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