Offering an introduction to the mangle, this book presents empirical studies that demonstrate the mangle's applicability to topics as diverse as pig farming, Chinese medicine, economic theory and domestic-violence policing.

"Andrew Pickering is a major figure in the field of science studies. In the original, widely cited and widely admired but still controversial "The Mangle of Practice," he developed a number of important concepts that are strongly resonant for many members of the current generation of scholars, researchers, and theorists in the social sciences and humanities. This new, very substantial, highly readable collection will be illuminating for readers interested in science studies, post-humanist approaches to ethical-pragmatic issues, and/or new directions in ontology."--Barbara Herrnstein Smith, author of "Scandalous Knowledge: Science, Truth, and the Human
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