Regions of the Mind: Brain Research and the Quest for Scientific Certainty - Hardcover

Bridges the gap between sociology and history in a way that contributes to the philosophy of science. Star does not use history to confirm and expand her sociology; rather, she elaborates, with her systematic treatment of procedures and processes, a way of handling both the detailed content of a discipline and its social or institutional achievements. Susan Leigh Star (1954-2010) was an American sociologist specializing in the study of information in modern society; information worlds; information infrastructure; classification and standardization; sociology of science; sociology of work and the history of science, medicine, technology, and communication/information systems. She commonly used the qualitative methods methodology and feminist theory approach.