STS subdisciplines

Subject-matter (object of study)

Communities (people)

Subject matter of STS

Practices

DisciplinesDiscourses

Thick descriptions

Communities

HistoriansContemporary

STSers

InterviewingNetwork-discourse analysisLife stories

Oral historiesBiographyProsopography

Historians

Contemporary STSers

Subject matterWhiggismTeleology

Policy irrelevanceDullness

Historians

Contemporary STSers

Subject matter

Collaborative approach to interdisciplinarity

Reconfigured practices (genetic engineering, computer analysis)

New disciplines (biotechnology, genomics)

Promissory discourses

Recent biomedicine

Collaborative (thicker)

descriptions

Genealogy of narratives

Documents (archival evidence, contemporary artifacts)

How should STS approach

documents?