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Attributing Excellence in Medicine

The History of the Nobel Prize

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-90-04-39397-4
Verlag: Brill
Erscheinungstermin: 27.06.2019
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Attributing Excellence in Medicine discusses the aura around the prestigious Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. It analyzes the social processes and contingent factors leading to recognition and reputation in science and medicine. This volume will help the reader to better understand the dynamics of the attribution of excellence throughout the 20th century.

Contributors are Massimiano Bucchi, Fabio De Sio, Jacalyn Duffin, Heiner Fangerau, Thorsten Halling, Nils Hansson, David S. Jones, Gustav Källstrand, Ulrich Koppitz, Pauline Mattsson, Katarina Nordqvist, Scott H. Podolsky, Thomas Schlich, and Sven Widmalm.

Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9789004393974
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-90-04-39397-4
  • Verlag: Brill
  • Erscheinungstermin: 27.06.2019
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2019
  • Serie: Clio Medica
  • Produktform: Gebunden
  • Gewicht: 476 g
  • Seiten: 212
  • Format (B x H x T): 160 x 236 x 18 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hansson, Nils

Halling, Thorsten

Fangerau, Heiner

Foreword

Jeffrey Flier

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Nils Hansson, Thorsten Halling and Heiner Fangerau

Part 1: The Award and Beyond

1 Commemorating Excellence: The Nobel Prize and the Secular Religion of Science

Jacalyn Duffin

2 More Than a Prize: The Creation of the Nobel System

Gustav Källstrand

3 Hitler’s Boycott: Cultural Politics and the Rhetoric of Neutrality

Sven Widmalm

Part 2: Laureates and Nominees

4 From Global Recognition to Global Health: Antimicrobials and the Nobel Prize, 1901–2015

Scott H. Podolsky

5 Discovery or Reputation? Jacques Loeb and the Role of Nomination Networks

Heiner Fangerau, Thorsten Halling and Nils Hansson

6 Defining ‘Cutting-edge’ Excellence: Awarding Nobel Prizes (or not) to Surgeons

Nils Hansson, David S. Jones and Thomas Schlich

Part 3: Reverberation and Commercialization

7 John C. Eccles’ Conversion and the Meaning of ‘Authority’

Fabio De Sio, Nils Hansson and Ulrich Koppitz

8 The Laureate in the Spotlight: Renato Dulbecco and the Public Image of Science

Massimiano Bucchi

9 Nobel Prize Awarded Discoveries and Commercialization: The Role of the Laureates

Katarina Nordqvist and Pauline Mattsson

Index