Franklin cites anthropologists' conversational approach and greater sensitiviety to context as evidence of their ability to engender more productive and collaborative research programs for STS. “In contrast, several scholars represented in Marcus, using a more conversational approach to scientists' own accounts of their knowledge practices, show a high degree of self-consciousness of the vicissitudes of intellectual life as a result of its embeddedness in a wider social, cultural, and historical context. Such tensions reveal the kinds of conversations that might usefully occur in a climate less marked by defensiveness and mistrust fostered by the higher suspicions of recent science critics.” (165)
