Lisa Keru00e4nenTuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2010
Moving back and forth between news coverage, medical journals, letters to the editor, and oncology pamphlets, Lisa Keru00e4nen draws insights from rhetoric, literary studies, sociology, and science studies to analyze the roles of character in shaping the outcomes of the u201cDatagateu201d controversy, a scientific dispute that erupted after a 1994 Chicago Tribune headline: u201cFraud in Breast Cancer Research: Doctor Lied on Data for Decade.u201d Throughout the scandal, debates about the character of surgeon and researcher Dr. Bernard Fisher and other key players endured, showing how scientific knowledge is shaped by perceptions of the personal temperament, trustworthiness, integrity, and transparency of those who produce it. As administrators, politicians, scientists, patients, journalists, and citizens attempted to make sense of what had happened, and to assess the integrity of the research, they raised questions, assigned blame, attributed responsibility, and reshaped the norms of scientific practice.
Yael Warshel, Cambridge University Press Over the last eighty years there has been a global rise in u201cpeace communicationu201d practice, the use of interpersonal and mass communication interventions to mediate between peoples engaged in political conflict. In this study, Yael Warshel assesses Israeli and Palestinian versions of Sesame Street, which...
Jae-Hwa Shin and Robert L. HeathWiley This edited volume addresses the work of philosopher Jean Gebser, who explored interconnections between cultures and was particularly interested in spirituality, consciousness, and human encounters with the divine. In this edited volume, Arneson and Svigaris bring together contributors from a number of disciplinary backgrounds,...
Kathleen M. RyanPeter Lang In this edited volume, Hernu00e1ndez and Gutierrez-Perez pay homage to Gloria E. Anzaldu00faa, a scholar of Chicana cultural theory, feminist theory, and queer theory. The booku2019s contributors incorporate Anzaldu00faau2019s theories, methods, and concepts into original research chapters that examine identity, Chicana and Black feminisms, experiences in...
Allison L. RowlandThe Ohio State University Press In this edited volume, Hernu00e1ndez and Gutierrez-Perez pay homage to Gloria E. Anzaldu00faa, a scholar of Chicana cultural theory, feminist theory, and queer theory. The booku2019s contributors incorporate Anzaldu00faau2019s theories, methods, and concepts into original research chapters that examine identity, Chicana and Black...
Linda Aldoory and Elizabeth TothRowman & Littlefield This edited volume addresses the work of philosopher Jean Gebser, who explored interconnections between cultures and was particularly interested in spirituality, consciousness, and human encounters with the divine. In this edited volume, Arneson and Svigaris bring together contributors from a number of disciplinary...
Lisa M. CorriganUniversity Press of Mississippi This edited volume addresses the work of philosopher Jean Gebser, who explored interconnections between cultures and was particularly interested in spirituality, consciousness, and human encounters with the divine. In this edited volume, Arneson and Svigaris bring together contributors from a number of disciplinary backgrounds,...