Scandals and Scoundrels : Seven Cases That Shook the Academy /

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Ron Robin takes an intriguing look at the shifting nature of academic and public discourse in this incisive consideration of recent academic scandals--including charges of plagiarism against Stephen Ambrose, Derek Freeman's attempt to debunk Margaret Mead's research, Michael Bellesiles...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Robin, Ron Theodore
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Plagiarism.
Learning and scholarship > Moral and ethical aspects.
Impostors and imposture.
EDUCATION > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Business Ethics.
plagiarism.
Savoir et erudition > Aspect moral.
Plagiat.
Plagiarism
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : scholarly scandals: why do they happen?
  • Plagiarism and the demise of gatekeepers
  • The noble lie : "arming America" and the right to bear arms
  • "A self of many possibilities" : Joseph Ellis, the protean historian
  • The ghost of Caliban : Derek Freeman and "the fateful hoaxing of Margaret Mead"
  • Violent people and gentle savages : the Yanomami controversy
  • The willful suspension of disbelief : Rigoberta Menchú and the making of the Mayan holocaust
  • Science fiction : Sokal's hoax and the "linguist left"
  • What do the scandals mean?

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