Tales of Research Misconduct A Lacanian Diagnostics of Integrity Challenges in Science Novels

This monograph contributes to the scientific misconduct debate from an oblique perspective, by analysing seven  novels devoted to this issue, namely: Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (1925), The affair by C.P. Snow (1960), Cantor’s Dilemma by Carl Djerassi (1989), Perlmann’s Silence by Pascal Mercier (1...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Zwart, Hub. author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer Nature 2017
2017.
Edición:1st ed. 2017.
Colección:Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy, 36
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009425418806719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter1. Introduction
  • Chapter2. Conceptual framework and methodology: Lacanian psychoanalysis
  • Chapter3. Phage ethics (Sinclair Lewis – Arrowsmith, 1925)
  • Chapter4. The toxic picture (C.P. Snow – The Affair, 1960)
  • Chapter 5. Crisis and credibility (Carl Djerassi – Cantor’s Dilemma, 1989)
  • Chapter 6. Tainted texts (Pascal Mercier – Perlmann’s Silence, 1995)
  • Chapter 7. The retraction (Allegra Goodman – Intuition, 2006)
  • Plagiarising nature (Ian McEwan – Solar, 2010)
  • Chapter 9. Conclusion: psychoanalysing science.  .