Shaping science with the past : textbooks, history, and the disciplining of genetics
Science is generally not thought of as being deeply historiographical. Although it is clear that scientists frequently write about history in their work — that, for example, they identify the significance of an advance by situating it historically, or refer to a historic source of authority in order...
Main Author: | Skopek, Jeffrey M. |
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University of Cambridge
2008
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Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.549806 |
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