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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464933303321

Titolo

It takes two to do science : the puzzling interactions between science and society / / Henri Eisendrath, Jean Paul Van Bendegem (eds.)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Brussels, Belgium : , : VUBPress, , 2009

©2009

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

EisendrathHenri

Van BendegemJean Paul

Disciplina

001.4068

Soggetti

Group work in research

Science - Social aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Front ""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""History, archaeology and heritage in Flanders The industrial past and its landscapes""; ""Camel antibodies in medicine and biotechnology""; ""Tensions between mathematics, the sciences, and philosophy""; ""The evaluation of legal science""; ""Ethical challenges in the inclusion of the poor in the financial sector""; ""Cosmologies for the generation of useful and reliable knowledge in Western Europe and China from the accession of the Ming to the First Opium War (1368-1839)""

""Sleep and wakefulness research at the Department of Biological Psychology""""Media, �public opinion� and (criminological) research""; ""Photonics : research in a world of creativity and controversy""; ""Afterthoughts : yes, but is it science ?""