This open access edited book provides new thinking on scientific identity formation. It
thoroughly interrogates the concepts of community and identity including both historical and
contemporaneous analyses of several scientific fields. Chapters examine whether and how
today's scientific identities and communities are subject to fundamental changes reacting to
tangible shifts in research funding as well as more intangible transformations in our society's
understanding and expectations of technoscience. In so doing this book reinvigorates the
concept of scientific community. Readers will discover empirical analyses of newly emerging
fields such as synthetic biology systems biology and nanotechnology and accounts of the
evolution of theoretical conceptions of scientific identity and community. With inspiring
examples of technoscientific identity work and community constellations along with
thought-provoking hypotheses and discussion the work has a broad appeal. Those involved in
science governance will benefit particularly from this book and it has much to offer those in
scholarly fields including sociology of science science studies philosophy of science and
history of science as well as teachers of science and scientists themselves.
