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

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

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Superior document:Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy Series ; v.36
:
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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (268 pages)
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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.

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