Tracers of modern technoscience
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Universidad de Granada
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2009Referencia bibliográfica
Herran, Néstor; Roqué, Xavier. «Tracers of modern technoscience». Dynamis: Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam, 2009, Vol. 29, p. 123-130, https://raco.cat/index.php/Dynamis/article/view/136778.
Resumen
Together with genes, drugs or standardized laboratory mice, isotopes might
well be considered amongst the scientific objects that shaped science,
technology, and medicine in the 20th century 1. Isotopes are forms of the
same element that differ in the number of neutrons in their nuclei. Chemically
identical yet physically distinct, ever since the end of World War
II they have been widely applied to scientific research, medical diagnosis
and therapy, and industrial control processes. The production, distribution
and uses of isotopes have therefore borne witness to key aspects of modern
technoscience, such as the role of state agencies vis-à-vis private companies
and the market, or the relation between science, politics and the military.
Affording a specific view of these developments, isotopes work as tracers
of modern technoscience that invite historical research.