The relationship of the current technosciences and the older engineering sciences, examined through the history of the "useful" sciences in Prussia. Do today's technoscientific disciplines--including materials science, genetic engineering, nanotechnology, and robotics--signal a radical departure from traditional science? In Technoscience in History, Ursula Klein argues that these novel disciplines and projects are not an "epochal break,"...
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