Shaping science with rhetoric : the cases of Dobzhansky, Schrödinger, and Wilson

Shaping science with rhetoric : the cases of Dobzhansky, Schrödinger, and Wilson /

How do scientists persuade colleagues from diverse fields to cross the disciplinary divide, risking their careers in new interdisciplinary research programmes? Why do some attempts to inspire such research win widespread acclaim and support, while others do not? Leah Ceccarelli addresses such questi...

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Main Author: Ceccarelli, Leah
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001
Subjects:
Wilson, Edward O. > Consilience.
Dobzhansky, Theodosius Grigorievich, > 1900-1975. > Genetics and the origin of species.
Schrödinger, Erwin, > 1887-1961. > What is life?
Wilson, Edward Osborne, > 1929- > Consilience.
Life sciences literature.
Rhetoric.
Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge.
Interdisciplinary research.
Interprofessional relations.
Communication.
Misinformation.
Research Design
Science > history
Interprofessional Relations
Communication
rhetoric (discipline)
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