STS is an umbrella for many disciplinary approaches to studying science and technology. History of science/tech is just one disciplinary lens to use (as is anthropology of sci/tech, sociology of sci/tech, etc.).
The way I joke about it with student is that me and my anthropologist colleague are both interested in how science and tech work (in society, etc.). I study it by reading dead scientists' mail, while she gets to stalk living ones. Similar topics, different methods.
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(And, of course, like good non-methodological purists, we both poach each other's methods periodically. I sometimes talk to living people WHEN I MUST, she sometimes reads historical records WHEN SHE MUST, and we both complain a lot when this has to happen.)
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The capability of living people to talk back makes them less than ideal research subjects in my view. Plus IRBs and all that! Much easier to deal with the dead in many respects.
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