Discourses and Narrations in the Biosciences

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-3-89971-831-7
Verlag: V&R unipress

Buch, Deutsch, Englisch, Band Band 008, 299 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 580 g

Reihe: Interfacing Science, Literature, and the Humanities

Discourses and Narrations in the Biosciences investigates the forms of writing in which scientific claims are formulated and announced. Argumentative strategies, compositional rules, and figurative expressions in communication and narrativization of scientific knowledge are the focus of interdisciplinary contributions by humanities and science scholars.The first part of the book, dedicated to ‘Rhetorical and Epistemological Aspects of Science Writing’, addresses how scientific pursuits and methods feed into multi-level texts that generate responses within science, society, and culture. The second part, entitled ‘Bioscientific Discourses and Narrations’, examines popularizations and fictionalizations of science in relation to diversity, deviancy, ageing, illness, reproduction, the evolution of humankind, mathematical models of biomedical systems, and the myth of the heroic scientist.Assessing the narrative impetus and command of literary and meta-discoursive strategies shown by contemporary science writers enhances understanding of the methods and conventions through which the biosciences produce knowledge.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Spinozzi, Paola

Hurwitz, Brian

Weitere Mitwirkende

Agazzi, Elena

Fortunati, Vita

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik

Leseproben

Discourses and Narrations in the Biosciences investigates the forms of writing in which scientific claims are formulated and announced. Argumentative strategies, compositional rules, and figurative expressions in communication and narrativization of scientific knowledge are the focus of interdisciplinary contributions by humanities and science scholars.The first part of the book, dedicated to ‘Rhetorical and Epistemological Aspects of Science Writing’, addresses how scientific pursuits and methods feed into multi-level texts that generate responses within science, society, and culture. The second part, entitled ‘Bioscientific Discourses and Narrations’, examines popularisations and fictionalizations of science in relation to diversity, deviancy, ageing, illness, reproduction, the evolution of humankind, mathematical models of biomedical systems, and the myth of the heroic scientist.Assessing the narrative impetus and command of literary and meta-discoursive strategies shown by contemporary science writers enhances understanding of the methods and conventions through which the biosciences produce knowledge.>

Über Autor(innen)

Spinozzi, Paola
Dr. Paola Spinozzi is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Ferrara. Her research focuses on theories and methods of Interart Studies, ekphrasis, illustration and calligraphy, Utopian Studies, rhetorical strategies and figurative language in scientific discourse, literary representations of scientific theories.

Hurwitz, Brian
Brian Hurwitz is a family doctor practising in inner London and Professor of Medicine and the Arts at King’s College London. His research encompasses narrative studies in relation to medical practice, ethics, law and clinical case reports. He co-convenes the UK’s first MA Programme in Literature and Medicine and directs the Centre for the Humanities and Health at King’s College, which offers both an MSc and MA in Medical Humanities.

Agazzi, Elena
Dr. Elena Agazzi ist Professorin für German Studies an der Universität Bergamo. Elena Agazzi is Full Professor for German Studies at the University of Bergamo. Her latest researches deal with the problem of cultural memory in Germany and Europe in the wake of the Second World War.

Dr. Paola Spinozzi is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Ferrara. Her research focuses on theories and methods of Interart Studies, ekphrasis, illustration and calligraphy, Utopian Studies, rhetorical strategies and figurative language in scientific discourse, literary representations of scientific theories.
Brian Hurwitz is a family doctor practising in inner London and Professor of Medicine and the Arts at King’s College London. His research encompasses narrative studies in relation to medical practice, ethics, law and clinical case reports. He co-convenes the UK’s first MA Programme in Literature and Medicine and directs the Centre for the Humanities and Health at King’s (http://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/groups/chh/), which offers both an MSc and MA in Medical Humanities.