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- The first and only book addressing issues of research integrity and scientific misconduct in novels
- Analyses novels in a comprehensive in-depth manner whilst combining philosophical, psychological and ethical expertise
- Aims to counteract the science-humanities divide and to foster the science-humanities dialogue
Part of the book series: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy (LOET, volume 36)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This monograph contributes to the scientific misconduct debate from an oblique perspective, by analysing seven  novels devoted to this issue, namely: Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (1925), The affair by C.P. Snow (1960), Cantor’s Dilemma by Carl Djerassi (1989), Perlmann’s Silence by Pascal Mercier (1995), Intuition by Allegra Goodman (2006),  Solar by Ian McEwan (2010) and Derailment by Diederik Stapel (2012). Scientific misconduct, i.e. fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, but also other questionable research practices, have become a  focus of concern for academic communities worldwide, but also for managers, funders and publishers of research. The aforementioned novels offer intriguing windows into integrity challenges emerging in contemporary research practices. They are analysed from a continental philosophical perspective,  providing a stage where various voices, positions and modes of discourse are mutually exposed to one another, so that they critically address and question one another. They force us to start from the admission that we do not really know what misconduct is. Subsequently, by providing case histories of misconduct, they address integrity challenges not only in terms of individual deviance but also in terms of systemic crisis, due to current transformations in the ways in which knowledge is produced. Rather than functioning as moral vignettes, the author argues that misconduct novels challenge us to reconsider some of the basic conceptual building blocks of integrity discourse.
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Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Philosophy and Science Studies, Faculty of Science, Institute for Science in Society, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Hub Zwart
About the author
Hub Zwart (1960) studied Philosophy and Psychology at Radboud University Nijmegen and became research associate at the Institute for Bioethics in Maastricht in 1988. In 2000 he was appointed as full Professor of Philosophy at the Faculty of Science (RU Nijmegen). In 2003 he established and became scientific director of the Centre for Society and Genomics (CSG) and in 2005 he established and became director of the Institute for Science, Innovation, and Society (ISIS). His research addresses philosophical and societal dimensions of the life sciences, notably genomics and post-genomics (synthetic biology, nanomedicine and brain research) from a continental philosophical perspective, building on traditions such as dialectics (Hegel), phenomenology (Heidegger), psychoanalysis (Bachelard, Lacan) and critical theory (Foucault). Special attention is^100 single or first author articles in academic journals / volumes and 12 books, including Understa
150 international lectures, most of them invited. He was visiting scholar / professor at the Hastings Centre (NY), St. John’s (Canada), Nagasaki (Japan), Seoul (Korea) and Ghent (Belgium). With Ruth Chadwick, he is editor-in-chief of the open access journal Life Sciences, Society and Policy (Springer). He is / was involved in several international research projects and advisory boards and since 2015 he is coordinator of the H2020 project PRINTEGER (Promoting Integrity as an Integral Dimension of Excellence in Research).Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Tales of Research Misconduct
Book Subtitle: A Lacanian Diagnostics of Integrity Challenges in Science Novels
Authors: Hub Zwart
Series Title: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65554-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-65553-6Published: 02 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88053-2Published: 22 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-65554-3Published: 14 September 2017
Series ISSN: 1387-6678
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0323
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 263
Number of Illustrations: 79 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Ethics, Psychoanalysis, Twentieth-Century Literature, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary