How well do facts travel? : the dissemination of reliable knowledge / edited by Peter Howlett, Mary S. Morgan.
"Facts often acquire a life of their own; the stories in this book explain why"--
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2011.
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Table of Contents:
- 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 LandstroĢm
- 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.