Since the 17th century our ideas of scientific authorship have expanded and changed dramatically. In this work, Mario Biagioli and Peter Galison have brought together historians of science, literary historians, and historians of the book. Together they track the changing nature and identity of the author in science, both historically and conceptually, from the emergence of scientific academies in the age of Galileo to concerns with large-scale multiauthorship and intellectual property rights in the age of cloning labs and pharmaceutical giants. How, for example, do we decide whether a chemical compound is discovered or invented? What does it mean to patent genetic material? Documenting the emergence of authorship in the late medieval period, authorship's limits and its fragmentation, "Scientific Authorship" offers a collective history of a complex relationship.
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'What is an author?' is a question that has been central to cultural and literary studies for almost thirty years. This collection of essays open up genuinely new perspectives on this question and shows us how much science studies has to contribute to fundamental issues in the humanities.
–Arnold I. Davidson, University of Chicago
–Arnold I. Davidson, University of Chicago
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Mario Biagioli is Professor of the History of Science at Harvard and author of Galileo, Courtier. He is editor of The Science Studies Reader (Routledge). Peter Galison is Mallinkrodt Professor of the History of Science at Harvard. He is the author of several books, including Image and Logic and is editor, with Caroline Jones, of Picturing Science, Producing Art (Routledge).
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This is a collection of articles on authorship, from authors with diverse backgrounds . Some of them are very good. I particularly enjoyed Mr. Galison article on multiple autorship and The CERN. It think only that one would be worth having the entire book.
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interview with senior researcher, scientific authorship, authorship protocols, traditional cultural materials, nuclear weapons science, salvage history, authorship guidelines, experimental electricity, experimental natural philosophers, artisanal knowledge, authorship practices, scientific credit, cultural sustainability, weapons scientists, gift model, literary authorship, authorship credit, science administrators, mathematical tripos, publicity rights, physics notes, scientific notes, authorial identity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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interview with senior researcher, scientific authorship, authorship protocols, traditional cultural materials, nuclear weapons science, salvage history, authorship guidelines, experimental electricity, experimental natural philosophers, artisanal knowledge, authorship practices, scientific credit, cultural sustainability, weapons scientists, gift model, literary authorship, authorship credit, science administrators, mathematical tripos, publicity rights, physics notes, scientific notes, authorial identity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Royal Society, Cambridge University Press, University of Chicago Press, Cavendish Laboratory, Martha Woodmansee, Newton Correspondence, Michel Foucault, Judge Cardamone, Optical Institute, Harvard University Press, Isaac Newton, Los Alamos, Mario Biagioli, Book Three, Duke University Press, Philosophical Transactions, Princeton University Press, Roger Chartier, United States, Big Science, Clerk Maxwell, Model Provisions, Trinity College, Clarendon Press New!
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- Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyright by Mark Rose on 4 pages
- The Bourbaki Gambit by Carl Djerassi on page 281, page 303, and page 306
- Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation and Other Evolutionary Writings by Robert Chambers on page 108, page 112, and page 192
- Our Common Future (Oxford Paperbacks) by World Commission On Environment and Development on page 213, page 219, and page 223
- Copyright's Paradox by Neil Weinstock Netanel on page 219, and page 222
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- E.T. Culture: Anthropology in Outerspaces by Debbora Battaglia in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems by Aihwa Ong on page 78, and Back Matter
- Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps: Empires of Time by Peter Galison in Front Matter
- Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps: Empires of Time by Peter Louis Galison in Front Matter
- Science and Technology in World History: An Introduction by James E. McClellan in Back Matter
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