How well do facts travel? : the dissemination of reliable knowledge /

Other Authors: Howlett, Peter, Morgan, Mary S.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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245 |a How well do facts travel? :  |b the dissemination of reliable knowledge /  |c edited by Peter Howlett, Mary S. Morgan. 
260 |a Cambridge :  |b Cambridge University Press,  |c 2011. 
300 |a xviii, 465 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 24 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 |a Part 1: Introduction -- 1. Travelling facts / Mary S. Morgan -- Part 2: Matters of Fact -- 2. Facts and building artefacts: what travels in material objects? / Simona Valeriani -- 3. A journey through times and cultures? Ancient Greek forms in American nineteenth-century architecture / Lambert Schneider -- 4. Manning's N: putting roughness to work / Sarah J. Whatmore and Catharina Landstr œ -- 5. My facts are better than your facts: spreading good news about global warming / Naomi Oreskes -- 6. Real problems with fictional cases / Jon Adams -- Part 3: Integrity and Fruitfulness -- 7. Ethology's travelling facts / Richard W. Burkhardt, Jr. -- 8. Travelling facts about crowded rats: rodent experimentation and the human sciences / Edmund Ramsden -- 9. Using cases to establish novel diagnoses: creating generic facts by making particular facts travel together / Rachel A. Ankeny -- 10. Technology transfer and travelling facts: a perspective from Indian agriculture / Peter Howlett and Aashish Velkar -- 11. Archaeological facts in transit: the "Eminent Mounds" of central North America / Alison Wylie -- Part 4: Companionship and Character -- 12. Packaging small facts for re-use: databases in model organism biology / Sabina Leonelli -- 13. Designed for travel: communicating facts through images / Martina Merz -- 14. Using models to keep us healthy: the productive journeys of facts across public health research networks / Erika Mansnerus -- 15. The facts of life and death: a case of exceptional longevity / David Boyd Haycock -- 16. Love life of a fact / Heather Schell. 
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700 1 |a Morgan, Mary S. 
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