Experimentation in the Sciences

Catherine Allamel-Raffin is Professor at the University of Strasbourg and Co-Director of the Archives Henri Poincaré Laboratory (CNRS, University of Lorraine, University of Strasbourg). Her research focuses on objectivity of scientific images. She has written, co-written or edited a dozen books and some forty articles. Jean-Luc Gangloff teaches both at a high school and at the University of Strasbourg. He has written, co-written or edited a dozen books and some twenty articles. His research focuses on questions of philosophy of science and on the representation of science in fiction.Yves Gingras is Professor of history and sociology of science at Université du Québec à Montréal. His research focuses on the transformations of scientific disciplines. He has written, co-written or edited twenty books, and published over one hundred and forty articles.

• Dedication.- Chapter 1. The characteristics and diversity of experimentation in the sciences (Catherine Allamel-Raffin, Jean-Luc Gangloff and Yves Gingras).- Chapter 2. Experimentation in physics (Yves Gingras).- Chapter 3. Experimentation in chemistry (Jean-Pierre Llored).- Chapter 4. Experimentation in the life sciences (Laurent Loison).- Chapter 5. Experimentation in psychology (Jean Audusseau).- Chapter 6. Experimentation in sociology (Dominique Raynaud).- Chapter 7. Experimentation in economics (Herrade Igersheim & Mathieu Lefebvre).- Chapter 8. Experimentation in management science (Vincent Helfrich).- Chapter 9. Experimentation in Medecine (Stéphanie Dupouy).- Chapter 10. The medical clinic as an experimental practice (Jean-Christophe Weber).- Chapter 11. Experimentation in Archeology (Nicolas Monteix).