Communicating Science: Professional Contexts (OU Reader) / Edition 1

by Roger Hill, Kirk Junker, Eileen Scanlon

Overview

Communicating Science: Professional Contexts is a collection of articles dealing with the communication between scientists. The way in which science really works is at the core of this reader. The articles are divided into three sections: what'science needs to be communicated; communication among scientists; how scientists communicate with other professionals. 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 (journals, professional bodies, peer review, and new modes of communication such as the World Wide Web) adopted for the exchange of information between professional scientists. The final part includes case studies of situations where scientists communicate with other professionals, giving us a close and intimate understanding of how the professional life of scientists really works. Communicating Science will be an invaluable source-book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415197519
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/17/1998
Series:	Of Economics; 23
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	326
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Roger Hill, Kirk Junker, Eileen Scanlon

Table of Contents

Preface. Part 1. What needs to be communicated about science?, Introduction, Eileen Scanlon, Chapter 1. Perspectives on the nature of science, Chapter 2. Is the scientific paper a fraud?, Chapter 3. Scientific Discourse and it's History: Reflections and Prospects, Part 2. Communication between scientists, Introduction, Roger Hill, Chapter 4. Scientists in Communication, Chapter 5. Methods and Motives for Publishing Original Science Work in Science, Chapter 6. How to read a Scientific Article: Writing Summaries and Critiques, 7. How to Write a Scientific Paper, Chapter 8. Participation in Scientific Meetings: A New Prosographical Approach to the Disciplinary History of Science - the case of Immunology, 1951-1972, Chapter 9. Science and the Internet, Chapter 10. The Internet as a Medium for Science Communication, Chapter 11. Diffusion of Information across the Sciences, Chapter 12. Medical Knowledge for clinical problem solving: a structural analysis of clincal questions, Chapter 13. Interdisciplinary meetings: choices and organisation, Chapter 14. Cold Fusion and Hot History, Chapter 15. Cloning, Controversy and Communication, Chapter 16. Round in Circles: the scholar as author and end user in the electronic environment Communication between scientists, Part 3. Scientists Communicating with other professionals, Introduction, Kirk Junker, Chapter 17. Law and Society Serving One Master...Narrative, Chapter 18. Managing methane, Chapter 19. The Recombinant DNA debate