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Explaining scientific consensus : the case of Mendelian genetics
- Title
- Explaining scientific consensus : the case of Mendelian genetics / Kyung-Man Kim ; foreword by Donald T. Campbell ; commentaries by Robert Olby and Nils Roll-Hansen.
- Author
- Kim, Kyung-Man, 1958-
- Publication
- New York : Guilford Press, [1994], ©1994.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | QH428 .K56 1994 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xxiv, 239 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- The Conduct of science series
- Uniform Title
- Conduct of science series.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-230) and index.
- Contents
- Foreword: Toward a Sociology of Scientific Validity / Donald T. Campbell -- Ch. 1. Scientific Consensus as a Sociological Problem -- Ch. 2. The Biometry-Mendelism Controversy Revisited -- Ch. 3. Natural Selection and the Background of the Controversy -- Ch. 4. Controversy over Heredity in Mice: The Conversion of the Three Paradigm Articulators -- Ch. 5. Consensus on the Mendelian Explanation of Alternative Inheritance -- Ch. 6. The Watershed of the Controversy: Wilhelm Johannsen's Genotype Theory and the Formation of New Allies -- Ch. 7. The Emergence of Consensus on the Multiple-Factor Theory and the Effectiveness of Selection -- Ch. 8. Conclusion: Language and Representation in the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge -- Commentary: Sociology of Science, Sociology of Knowledge, and Scientific Consensus / Robert Olby -- Commentary: Challenging Current Sociology of Scientific Knowledge / Nils Roll-Hansen.
- ISBN
- 0898620880 (acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 94011796
- OCLC
- 30110993
- ocm30110993
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries