Contents -- Contributors -- Scrutinizing Science Studies -- Part I: The Strange World of Postmodernist Science Studies -- 1 What the Social Text Affair Does and Does Not Prove -- 2 What the Sokal Hoax Ought to Teach Us -- 3 A Plea for Science Studies -- Part II: Myths, Metaphors, and Misreadings -- 4 Bashful Eggs, Macho Sperm, and Tonypandy -- 5 An Engineer Dissects Two Case Studies: Hayles on Fluid Mechanics, and MacKenzie on Statistics -- 6 Evidence-Free Forensics and Enemies of Objectivity -- 7 Is Darwinism Sexist? (And if It Is, So What?) -- Part III: Interests, Ideology, and the Construction of Experiments -- 8 When Experiments Fail: Is "Cold Fusion" Science as Normal? -- 9 Avoiding the Experimenters' Regress -- 10 Do Mutants Die of Natural Causes? The Case of Atomic Parity Violation -- 11 Latour's Relativity -- Part IV: Art, Nature, and the Rise of Experimental Method -- 12 In Defense of Bacon -- 13 Alchemy, Domination, and Gender -- 14 What's Wrong with the Strong Programme's Case Study of the "Hobbes-Boyle" Dispute? -- 15 Reflections on Bruno Latour's Version of the Seventeenth Century -- Part V: Civilian Casualties of Postmodern Perspectives on Science -- 16 Postmodernisms and the Problem of Scientific Literacy -- 17 The End of Science, the Central Dogma of Science Studies, Monsieur Jourdain, and Uncle Vanya -- 18 The Epistemic Charity of the Social Constructivist Critics of Science and Why the Third World Should Refuse the Offer -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.