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How well do facts travel? : the dissemination of reliable knowledge /

"Facts often acquire a life of their own; the stories in this book explain why"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Howlett, Peter (William Peter), Morgan, Mary S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Travelling facts / Mary S. Morgan
  • Facts and building artefacts : what travels in material objects? / Simona Valeriani
  • A journey through times and cultures? : Ancient Greek forms in American 19th century architecture / Lambert Schneider
  • Manning's N : putting roughness to work / Sarah J. Whatmore and Catharina Landström
  • My facts are better than your facts : spreading good news about global warming / Naomi Oreskes
  • Real problems with fictional cases / Jon Adams
  • Ethology's travelling facts / Richard Burkhardt
  • Travelling facts about crowded rats : rodent experimentation and the human sciences / Ed Ramsden
  • Using cases to establish novel diagnoses : creating generic facts by making particular facts travel together / Rachel Ankeny
  • Technology transfer and travelling facts : a perspective from Indian agriculture / Peter Howlett and Aashish Velkar
  • Archaeological facts in transit : the "eminent mounds" of central North America / Alison Wylie
  • Packaging small facts for re-use : databases in model organism biology / Sabina Leonelli
  • Designed for travel : communicating facts through images / Martina Merz
  • Using models to keep us healthy : the productive journeys of facts across public health research networks / Erika Mansnerus
  • The facts of life and death : a case of exceptional longevity / David Haycock
  • Love life of a fact / Heather Schell.