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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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Main Author: Zwart, Hub (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Series:Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy, 36
Subjects:
Philosophy.
Literature, Modern > 20th century.
Ethics.
Psychoanalysis.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary.
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65554-3
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.  .

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