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Preface -- Acknowledgment -- Part I: Theoretical Considerations -- Encounters of Natives in Scientific Places -- Non-Natives -- And in Science? -- Combining Disciplines -- Boundaries and Passages between Disciplines -- From Sovereign Disciplines to Transdisciplinarity -- Individuals Seeking Solutions and the Unique Advantages of Women -- Concluding Comments -- Stories as a Way of Knowing -- What Makes a Story a Story -- What Elements of Experience Come into Stories? -- Stories and Their Sources -- Stories of Natives, Stories of Migrants -- What Stories Disclose -- Discourse: Constructs, Dialogues, and Dialogical Research -- Part II: A Story of Search and Research -- Point of Departure: Joining a Workplace (1982–1990) -- In the Beginning: The Department of Family and Community Health (1975–1991) -- Research Projects in the Department -- Constructing the Role of the Medical Sociologist -- Professional Makeup of the Department -- Location -- Leadership -- A Promising Project -- The Organization Splits in Two -- New Projects, 1991–2011 -- Launching Screening Programs -- Partnerships -- Large Case-Control Studies: The Molecular Biology Laboratory -- The Familial Cancer Counseling Service -- One Focus, Highly Varied Performance -- Revisions of Professional Identities -- Academic Career Shifts: Life in the Department -- Teaching Sociology -- Learning: Interventions, Research, and Listening -- At a Crossroads -- Embarking on New Courses of Study -- A Sociologist Studying Biology -- The Pilot Study: My Laboratory Project -- Doing the Work -- Forward to a Dissertation -- Trying for a Dissertation Once Again -- Lung Cancer Research -- Meaning of the Learning Experience -- The Making of Biologists -- Part III: Construing the Process -- Characterizing the Department as a Work Environment: Structures and Discourse -- Encounters in a Changing Work Environment -- Scripts and Constructs -- Dialogical Encounters and Language Functions -- Varieties of Encounters -- Scripts and Control -- Summarizing Remarks -- Revising the Sociologist’s Role: Taking on New Responsibilities -- Working with Epidemiologists -- The Early Detection of Cancer and Adherence to Recommendations for Screening -- Baseline Research Projects: Mammography and FOBT -- The PCP Study -- Misunderstandings -- Participation in the Three-Specializations Conference -- Psychosocial Research at the Familial Cancer Counseling Service -- Participation in the Establishment of the New Molecular CF35Epidemiology Laboratory on the Roof -- Independent Work in the Department -- Resolving Puzzles: Theoretical Integration -- Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology as a CF35Complex Organization -- Discourse: Scripts, Constructs, Conversational Functions -- A Climate of Trust -- Lea as a Researcher across Disciplines -- Epilogue -- References -- Index.
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