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Scientific characters : rhetoric, politics, and trust in breast cancer research /

Scientific Characters chronicles the contests over character, knowledge, trust, and truth in a politically charged scientific controversy that erupted after a 1994 Chicago Tribune headline: "Fraud in Breast Cancer Research: Doctor Lied on Data for Decade." In the aftermath of this dramatic...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Keränen, Lisa (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2010.
Colección:Rhetoric, culture, and social critique.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Scientists under scrutiny : the centrality of character in science-based controversy
  • A beneficent healer and a career-minded falsifier? Physician-researcher role conflict and the Janus-faced Dr. Roger Poisson
  • The rise, fall, and resurrection of a scientific revolutionary : competing characterizations of Dr. Bernard Fisher
  • Fighting for a place at the table : women as consumers, partners, and subjects of science--and the "dark knight" who tried to "protect" them
  • Recharacterizing science and public life : trust, dialogue, and citizen engagement.