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It takes two to do science : the puzzling interactions between science and society / Henri Eisendrath, Jean Paul Van Bendegem (eds.).
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Group work in research.
- Science--Social aspects.
- Science.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (201 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Brussels, Belgium : VUBPress, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Bringing together scholars from the exact sciences as well as those from the humanities and social sciences, this collection of papers asks the contributors to explain how they approach their research and seeks to find common ground between both groups. All aspects of the scientific enterprise are covered, from hypothesis testing and theory formation to the search for money, grants, and subsidies and even to competition with other teams. Attempting to bridge the gap between the "hard" and "soft" sciences, this overview of the scientific process shows the all-encompassing approach that is needed to do good science, as well as how various disciplines interact with one another and relate to society at large.
- Contents:
- ""Front ""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""History, archaeology and heritage in Flanders The industrial past and its landscapes""; ""Camel antibodies in medicine and biotechnology""; ""Tensions between mathematics, the sciences, and philosophy""; ""The evaluation of legal science""; ""Ethical challenges in the inclusion of the poor in the financial sector""; ""Cosmologies for the generation of useful and reliable knowledge in Western Europe and China from the accession of the Ming to the First Opium War (1368-1839)""
- ""Sleep and wakefulness research at the Department of Biological Psychology""""Media, �public opinion� and (criminological) research""; ""Photonics : research in a world of creativity and controversy""; ""Afterthoughts : yes, but is it science ?""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource ; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 4, 2013).
- OCLC:
- 922966361
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