Thomas Söderqvist

The History and Poetics of Scientific Biography

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Produktbeschreibung

Although biography as a genre has increasingly become a topic of scholarly inquiry, the genre of scientific biography; those biographies of scientists, engineers and medical doctors; has largely been overlooked. It is to remedy this situation that this volume has been conceived. Borrowing approaches and methods from cultural studies and the history, philosophy and sociology of science, the contributors to this volume cover a broad range of subjects, periods and locations. By presenting a rich diversity of essays, the volume is able to chart the reoccurring conceptual problems and devices that have influenced scientific biographies from the seventeenth century to the present day.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781138264793
• ISBN-10: 1138264792
• Artikelnr.: 57040860

Autorenporträt

Thomas Söderqvist is Professor for History of Medicine and Director of Medical Museion at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Series editor's preface; Preface; Introduction: A new look at the
genre of scientific biography, Thomas Söderqvist; Presenting a 'life' as a
guide to living: ancient accounts of the life of Pythagoras, Liba Taub;
Biography as a route to understanding early modern natural philosophy,
Stephen Gaukroger; Neither genius nor context incarnate: Norman Lockyer,
Jules Janssen and the astrophysical self, David Aubin and Charlotte Bigg;
Framing the evidence: scientific biography and portraiture, Patricia Fara;
Biography and the reward system in science, Thomas L. Hankins; The tragedy
of Comrade Hessen: biography as historical discourse, Christopher A.J.
Chilvers; Received wisdom in biography: Tycho biographies from Gassendi to
Christianson, Helge Kragh; The programmatic function of biography: readings
of 19- and 20th-century biographies of Niels Stensen (Steno), Signe
Lindskov Hansen; Discriminating days? Partiality and impartiality in
19th-century biographies of Newton, Rebekah Higgitt; Biographies as
mediators between memory and history in science, Bernadette
Bensaude-Vincent; 'La mauvaise herbe': unwanted biographies both great and
small, Jacalyn Duffin; Primary suspects: reflections on autobiography and
life stories in the history of molecular biology, Rena Selya; Pas de deux:
the biographer and the living biographical subject, Vassiliki Betty
Smocovitis; Resuscitating the 'Great Doctor': the career of biography in
medical history, Beth Linker; 'No genre of history fell under more odium
than that of biography': the delicate relations between scientific
biography and historiography of science, Thomas Söderqvist; Index.