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.).
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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.
(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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