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Author Keränen, Lisa, author.

Title Scientific characters : rhetoric, politics, and trust in breast cancer research / Lisa Keränen
Published Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 236 pages)
Series Rhetoric, culture, and social critique
Rhetoric, culture, and social critique.
Contents Scientists under scrutiny : the centrality of character in science-based controversy -- A beneficent healer and a career-minded falsifier? Physician-researcher role conflict and the Janus-faced Dr. Roger Poisson -- The rise, fall, and resurrection of a scientific revolutionary : competing characterizations of Dr. Bernard Fisher -- Fighting for a place at the table : women as consumers, partners, and subjects of science--and the "dark knight" who tried to "protect" them -- Recharacterizing science and public life : trust, dialogue, and citizen engagement
Summary Scientific Characters chronicles the contests over character, knowledge, trust, and truth in a politically charged scientific controversy that erupted after a 1994 Chicago Tribune headline: "Fraud in Breast Cancer Research: Doctor Lied on Data for Decade." In the aftermath of this dramatic news, Dr. Bernard Fisher, the eminent oncologist and celebrated pioneer of breast cancer research, came under intense scrutiny following allegations that one of his investigators falsified data in landmark breast cancer research. Although he was eventually cleared of all
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Breast -- Cancer -- Research -- Moral and ethical aspects
Scientists -- Professional ethics
Scientific surveys.
Professional ethics.
Breast Neoplasms
Ethics, Research
Ethics, Professional
Scientific Misconduct -- ethics
professional ethics.
MEDICAL -- Ethics.
Professional ethics
Breast -- Cancer -- Research -- Moral and ethical aspects
Scientific surveys
Scientists -- Professional ethics
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009048780
ISBN 9780817384913
081738491X