Visual cultures of science
Subtitle: rethinking representational practices in knowledge building and science communication
By: edited by Luc Pauwels.
Contributors: Pauwels, L.
Series: Interfaces, studies in visual culture
Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Hanover, NH
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9781584655114; 9781584655121
Subjects: Visual communication in science.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: A theoretical framework for assessing visual representational practices in knowledge building and science communications / Luc pauwels; value: The production of scientific images : vision and re-vision in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science / Michael Lynch; value: Representing or mediating : a history and philosophy of X-ray images in medicine / Bernike Pasveer; value: The accursed part of scientific iconography / Francesco Panese; value: Images of science in the classroom : wall charts and science education, 1850/1920 / Massimiano Bucchi; value: Representing moving cultures : expression, multivocality, and reflexivity in anthropological and sociological filmmaking / Luc Pauwels; value: Arguing with images : Pauling's theory of antibody formation / Alberto Cambrosio, Daniel Jacobi, and Peter Keating; value: Discipline and the material form of images : an analysis of scientific visibility / Michael Lynch; value: Edward Tufte and the promise of a visual social science / John Grady; value: Making science visible : visual literacy in science communication / Jean Trumbo.