Review Essay: Object Lessons: Recent Work in the Rhetoric of Science

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1. Quoted in Eve Curie Labouisse, Madame Curie: A Biography (New York: Doubleday & Company, 1937), 222.

2. Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Towards a History of Epistemic Things: Synthesizing Proteins in a Test Tube (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1997), 28.

3. Peter Louis Galison, Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), 1–2.

4. This interest in the material aspects of science does not seem to be waning. Witness Baird Davis's Thing Knowledge: a Philosophy of Scientific Instruments (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004); Mario Biagioli's Galileo's Instruments of Credit: Telescopes, Images, Secrecy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006); Daniel Rothbart's Philosophical Instruments: Minds and Tools at Work (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007); and Sherry Turkle's three edited volumes, Evocative Objects: Things We Think With (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007); The Inner History of Devices (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008); and Falling for Science: Objects in Mind (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008).

5. Alan Gross, The Rhetoric of Science, 2nd ed. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996), 203.

6. Charles Bazerman, “Introduction: Rhetoricians on the Rhetoric of Science,” Science, Technology, & Human Values 14 (1989): 4.

7. R. Allen Harris, “Rhetoric of Science,” College English 53 (1991): 284.

8. Jeanne Fahnestock, Rhetorical Figures in Science (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 147.

9. J. Blake Scott, “Extending Rhetorical-Cultural Analysis: Transformations of Home HIV Testing,” College English 65 (2003): 361.

10. Scott, “Extending Rhetorical-Cultural Analysis,” 356.

11. Charles Bazerman, The Languages of Edison's Light (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999).

12. Lorrain Daston, Biographies of Scientific Objects (Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 2000), 9.

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Jordynn Jack

Jordynn Jack is Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill