Communicating Science: Professional Contexts (OU Reader)

by Hill,Roger; Hill,Roger

• ISBN13: 9780415197519
• ISBN10: 0415197511
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1999-02-12
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Communicating Scienceis a collection of essays dealing with the communication between scientists, examining what they need to communicate and how they go about this. The first section describes the nature of science, what counts as scientific evidence, and scientists' views of the process of scientific discovery. The second section deals with the means of communication adopted for the exchange of information between scientists. These include such instruments as journals, professional bodies, and peer reviews, as well as new modes of communication such as the World Wide Web. The third part includes case studies of situations where scientists communicate with other professionals, giving a close and intimate understanding of how the professional life of scientists really works.

Table of Contents

List of figures	viii
Preface	ix
PART I What needs to be communicated about science?	1	(50)
Introduction	3	(1)
Eileen Scanlon
Perspectives of the nature of science	4	(23)
R. Driver
J. Leach
R. Millar
P. Scott
Is the scientific paper a fraud?	27	(5)
P. Medawar
Scientific discourse and its history: relfections and prospects	32	(19)
S. Montgomery
PART II Communication among scientists	51	(194)
Introduction	53	(2)
Roger Hill
Scientists in communication	55	(6)
F. Rowland
Methods and motives for publishing original work in science	61	(11)
F. Rowland
How to read a scientific article: writing summaries and critiques	72	(17)
H. Beall
J. Trimbur
How to write a scientific paper	89	(12)
R.A. Day
Participation in scientific meetings: a new prosopographical approach to the disciplinary history of science -- the case of immunology, 1951--1972	101	(31)
T. Soderqvist
A. Silverstein
Science and the Internet	132	(9)
WM. A. Wulf
The Internet as a medium for science communication	141	(9)
H. Rzepa
Diffusion of information across the sciences	150	(7)
F. Rowland
Medical knowledge for clinical problem solving: a structural analysis of clinical questions	157	(20)
V. Florance
Interdisciplinary meetings: choices and organisation	177	(8)
L.L. Hench
J. Wilson
Cold fusion and hot history	185	(33)
B.V. Lewenstein
Cloning, controversy and communication	218	(13)
J. Leach
Round in circles: the scholar as author and end user in the electronic environment	231	(14)
C.L. Borgman
PART III Scientists communicating with other professionals	245	(59)
Introduction	247	(2)
Kirk Junker
Law and science serving one master ... narrative	249	(21)
K. Junker
Managing methane	270	(19)
D. Layton
The recombinant DNA debate	289	(15)
J. Turney
Index	304