Scientific characters
Subtitle: rhetoric, politics, and trust in breast cancer research
By: Lisa Keranen.
Series: Rhetoric, culture, and social critique
Publisher: University of Alabama Press; University Alabama Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780817317041; 9780817384913
Subjects: Breast -- Cancer -- Research -- Moral and ethical aspects; Scientists -- Professional ethics; Scientific surveys
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Scientists under scrutiny : the centrality of character in science-based controversy; title: A beneficent healer and a career-minded falsifier? Physician-researcher role conflict and the Janus-faced Dr. Roger Poisson; title: The rise, fall, and resurrection of a scientific revolutionary : competing characterizations of Dr. Bernard Fisher; title: Fighting for a place at the table : women as consumers, partners, and subjects of science; title: and the "dark knight" who tried to "protect" them; title: Recharacterizing science and public life : trust, dialogue, and citizen engagement.