If Only We Knew
Subtitle: Increasing the Public Value of Social Science Research
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: January 15, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780415926515
Subjects: Social issues; Social research & statistics; Social theory; Social Sciences And Civilization; Social Sciences Research; Social Science; Sociology; Popular Culture - General; Social Science / Sociology / General; Research; Communication in the social sc; Communication in the social sciences; Knowledge, Sociology of; Technological innovations
First sentence: When the well-known science writer and Harvard biologist Stephen Jay Gould was told in 1982 at the age of forty that he was suffering from abdominal mesothelioma, an "invariably fatal" form of stomach cancer, he was as unsure as any of us would be about where to turn for consolation.