Prize Fight: The Race and the Rivalry to be the First in Science - Rilegato

Meyers, Morton A., M.D.

 
9780230338906: Prize Fight: The Race and the Rivalry to be the First in Science
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ISBN 10: 0230338909 ISBN 13: 9780230338906
Casa editrice: St Martins Pr, 2012

Sinossi

We often think of scientists as dispassionate and detached, nobly laboring without any expectation of reward. But scientific research is much more complicated and messy than this ideal, and scientists can be torn by jealousy, impelled by a need for recognition, and subject to human vulnerability and fallibility. In Prize Fight , Emeritus Chair at SUNY School of Medicine Morton Meyers pulls back the curtain to reveal the dark side of scientific discovery. From allegations of stolen authorship to fabricated results and elaborate hoaxes, he shows us how too often brilliant minds are reduced to petty jealousies and promising careers cut short by disputes over authorship or fudged data.

Prize Fight is a dramatic look at some of the most notable discoveries in science in recent years, from the discovery of insulin, which led to decades of infighting and even violence, to why the 2003 Nobel Prize in Medicine exposed how often scientific objectivity is imperiled.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Morton A. Meyers, MD is Distinguished University Professor and emeritus chair of the Department of Radiology in the School of Medicine SUNY, Stony Brook. He is the author of the seminal textbook on abdominal radiology (now in its sixth edition) that has been translated into Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, and Portuguese editions and has worldwide sales total over 50,000, and is the founding editor in chief of the international journal Abdominal Imaging. The author of award-winning Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Modern Medical Breakthroughs, he lives in Stonybrook, New York.

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Editore
St Martins Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2012
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0230338909
ISBN 13 
9780230338906
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
262
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
non disponibile

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9781137278425: Prize Fight: The Race and the Rivalry to be the First in Science

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ISBN 10:  1137278420 ISBN 13:  9781137278425
Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
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