“For, as so many ethnographic studies of laboratory life have shown, the laboratory is not a ‘non-space’: it is itself a real configuration of persons, devices, and techniques, which imposes its own characteristics on the data generated, as well as the interpretations made of them, and all the more so when the subjects are individual living creatures, be they human or other animals” (Rose & Abi-Rached 228).
This about sums up how my views of laboratory science have been changed. Laboratories are not a blank white page that – well, here is a poem:
LABORATORY
white lab coats and
beakers.
that’s what I see
in laboratory.
what have those
white coats done…
in experimenting on the brain?
the brain was like a spirit
before I could see
that experimenting
is precise
it is not a game
(or at least it shouldn’t be).
Now I understand what
laboratory
means.
Because even
a blank
white page
is still made
of something.