By Ludwik Fleck,Thaddeus J. Trenn,Robert K. Merton,Thomas S. Kuhn,Frederick Bradley
"To many scientists simply as to many historians and philosophers of technology evidence are issues that easily are the case: they're came upon via safely passive remark of usual fact. To such perspectives Fleck replies that evidence are invented, now not came across. additionally, the looks of medical proof as came upon issues is itself a social development, a made factor. a piece of obvious brilliance, probably the most major contributions towards a completely sociological account of clinical knowledge."—Steven Shapin, Science
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