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Bloor was given a PhD from University of Edinburgh for a thesis he wrote called Speech and the regulation of behaviour. This was a paper written about the function of language. He writes that it is an important role in the organization of behavior. https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/22721
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He wrote a book called Knowledge and Social Imagery. The University of Chicago Press said this about the book: " this book profoundly challenged and divided students of philosophy, sociology, and the history of science when it was published in 1976." This is because he challenged sociologists beliefs. -
Bloor was awarded the John Desmond Bernal Prize for the amazing contribution to the Society for Social Studies of Science. This is a non-profit scholarly association.
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Roughly around 2001 David Bloor was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease.
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He was a little skeptical about going into hospice but when he went there just to see what it was all about, he found that it was a great help.