Tales of Research Misconduct : A Lacanian Diagnostics of Integrity Challenges in Science Novels / by Hub Zwart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zwart, Hub, 1960- Author.

Series:

Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy, 1387-6678 ; 36

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Psychoanalysis.

Literature, Modern—20th century.

Twentieth-Century Literature.

Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary.

Local Subjects:

Ethics.

Psychoanalysis.

Twentieth-Century Literature.

Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (IX, 263 p. 84 illus., 5 illus. in color.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2017.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 (1995), Intuition by Allegra Goodman (2006), Solar by Ian McEwan (2010) and Derailment by Diederik Stapel (2012). Scientific misconduct, i.e. fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, but also other questionable research practices, have become a focus of concern for academic communities worldwide, but also for managers, funders and publishers of research. The aforementioned novels offer intriguing windows into integrity challenges emerging in contemporary research practices. They are analysed from a continental philosophical perspective, providing a stage where various voices, positions and modes of discourse are mutually exposed to one another, so that they critically address and question one another. They force us to start from the admission that we do not really know what misconduct is. Subsequently, by providing case histories of misconduct, they address integrity challenges not only in terms of individual deviance but also in terms of systemic crisis, due to current transformations in the ways in which knowledge is produced. Rather than functioning as moral vignettes, the author argues that misconduct novels challenge us to reconsider some of the basic conceptual building blocks of integrity discourse.

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. .

Notes:

CC BY

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ISBN:

9783319655543

331965554X

OCLC:

1004860798