Tales of Research Misconduct: A Lacanian Diagnostics of Integrity Challenges in Science Novels

by Hub Zwart

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1013268822
• ISBN13: 9781013268823
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Saint Philip Street Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.5" x 11.0"