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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Keränen, Lisa
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2010.
Series:Rhetoric, culture, and social critique.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.