Tales of Research Misconduct : : A Lacanian Diagnostics of Integrity Challenges in Science Novels.

• Superior document: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy Series ; v.36
• Author: Zwart, Hub.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2017.; ©2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (268 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction: An Oblique Perspective on Research Misconduct -- 1.1 Research Misconduct Novels and Integrity Challenges in Science -- 1.2 Between Two Worlds: From Plato's Cave to Emile Zola's Experimental Novel -- 1.3 Hegelian Dialectics and the Hwang Case -- 1.4 A Second Dialectical Exercise: The Limitless Case -- 1.5 Freud and Fraud -- 1.6 Scientific Research as an Impossible Profession -- Chapter 2: Conceptual and Methodological Framework: Lacanian Psychoanalysis -- 2.1 Lacan on Science, University Discourse and Research Misconduct -- 2.2 Genealogy of the Scientific Subject: From the Platonic κτ̔̈”<U+0043><U+0043>·σμος to the Moebius Ring -- 2.3 The Oblique Perspective -- 2.4 The Four Discourses: Introduction -- 2.5 The Four Discourses: Elaboration -- 2.6 The Discourse of the Analyst -- Chapter 3: Knowledge, Power and the Self: Preliminary Explorations -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Rereading Hamlet -- 3.3 Carmen as a Research Novel -- 3.4 Qualified Experts: Benefactors or Enemies of the People? -- 3.5 Dialectics of Enlightenment: The Two Experiments of Dr. Ox -- Chapter 4: Into the Twentieth Century: The Case of Robert Oppenheimer -- 4.1 Introduction: Daybreak and Crisis -- 4.2 American Prometheus: A Science Biography Classic -- 4.3 Oppenheimer in Fiction: The Man Who Would Be God -- 4.4 University Discourse: Vicissitudes and Discontents -- 4.5 The Case of Communism -- 4.6 S2 as Secret Agent -- 4.7 The Discourse of the Hysteric -- 4.8 The Discourse of the Analyst -- 4.9 Aftermath: Science and Art -- Chapter 5: Phage-Ethics: A Lacanian Reading of Sinclair Lewis's Arrowsmith -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Plot Outline -- 5.3 Medical Practice and Its Discontents -- 5.4 Cupido sciendi: Pure Science as a Divine, Infectious Madness -- 5.5 The Bacteriophage as the Intrusion of the Real.

5.6 The Medical-Ethical Dilemma (The Bacteriologist as a Researcher and as a Physician) -- 5.7 A Scientific Walden: The Pastoral of Cabin Science -- 5.8 Conclusion: Conflicting Deontologies -- Chapter 6: A Compartmentalised Culture: Snow's The Affaire -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 First Comments -- 6.3 The Discourse of the Master -- 6.4 University Discourse -- 6.5 Hysteric's Discourse -- 6.6 The Discourse of the Analyst: The Affaire and The Purloined Letter -- Chapter 7: What Do Scientists Want? Perverse Incentives and Replication Traumas in Cantor's Dilemma -- 7.1 Summary -- 7.2 Knowledge Production: The Epistemological Dimension -- 7.3 The Power Dimension: Cantor's Sherpa -- 7.4 Experimenting and Publishing as Practices of the Self -- Chapter 8: Tainted Texts: Plagiarism and Self-­Exploitation in Perlmann's Silence -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 The Narrative: A Resume -- 8.3 University Discourse: The Knowledge Dimension -- 8.4 Master's Discourse: The Power Dimension -- 8.5 The Discourse of the Analyst: The Ethical Dimension -- 8.6 What Is Plagiarism? -- 8.7 Writing as Self-Constitution and as Self-Exploitation (Between Splitting and Conflation) -- 8.8 The Four Discourses -- 8.9 Conclusion: What Is Plagiarism? -- Chapter 9: Suspicious Minds: Allegra Goodman's Intuition -- 9.1 Knowledge and Power -- 9.2 A Knowledge Production Crisis -- 9.3 Intrusion of the Real or Fabrication? -- 9.4 Suspicious Minds -- 9.5 Power Intervenes -- 9.6 Working Through and Reparation? The Level of the Self -- Chapter 10: Splitting and Conflation: Plagiarism in Ian McEwan's Solar -- 10.1 The Knowledge Dimension -- 10.2 The Power Dimension: The Metaphysical Niceties of Plagiarism -- 10.3 Intellectual Property Rights as Fetishism -- 10.4 Splitting and Conflation: The Dimension of the Self.

Chapter 11: The Catwalk and the Mousetrap: Reading Diederik Stapel's Derailment as a Misconduct Novel -- 11.1 Introduction: Stapelgate -- 11.2 Derailment: Summary and First Analysis -- 11.3 Epistemological Setting: Social Psychology as the Science of Everyday Life -- 11.4 University Discourse and the Experimental Mousetrap -- 11.5 The Collapse of Truth: Three Responses to the Crisis -- 11.6 The Normative Trinity: The Power Dimension and the Master's Discourse -- 11.7 Cynicism and Absurdism: The Hysteric's Discourse -- 11.8 Writing as a Practice of the Self: The Discourse of the Analyst -- Chapter 12: Concluding Remarks -- 12.1 University Discourse, the Research Parallax and the Moebius Ring -- 12.2 Generation, Gender and Ethnicity -- 12.3 From Diagnostics to Therapy -- Bibliography.