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If you are interested in this I really recommend you look at writings from the fields that have descended from what was called "Laboratory Studies" and now variously calls itself "Science studies", or "science and technology studies" or "science, technology and society" (STS is a common acronym). For the stuff that's very lab-focused I'd say you could start with Bruno Latour and Steven Shapin, both classics of the older guard of the field.