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Attributing Excellence in Medicine [print & e-book]

The History of the Nobel Prize
Media-Kombination
200 Seiten
2019
Brill
978-90-04-40684-1 (ISBN)
107,10 inkl. MwSt
This book investigates the history of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The anthology will help the reader to better understand the social dynamics of scientific recognition and reputation throughout the 20th century and provide new perspectives on excellence in science and medicine.
Attributing Excellence in Medicine: The History of the Nobel Prize investigates the history of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. It discusses the aura around this prestigious award and which social processes and contingent factors behind the scenes result in recognition and reputation in medicine. The anthology will help the reader to better understand the social dynamics of scientific recognition and reputation throughout the 20th century and provide new perspectives on excellence in science and medicine.



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.

Nils Hansson (PhD) is lecturer at the Department of the History, Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. His main research interests include the enactment of excellence in science and circulation of knowledge in medicine in the Baltic Sea region. Thorsten Halling (M.A.) is researcher at the Department of the History, Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. He is interested in medicine during the Nazi era and networks in medicine. Heiner Fangerau (MD) is professor at the Department of the History, Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. He does research in History of Science and Medicine and Medical Ethics.

Foreword by Jeffrey Flier

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors



Attributing Excellence in Medicine: The History of the Nobel Prize

Nils Hansson, Thorsten Halling and Heiner Fangerau



THE AWARD AND BEYOND



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

Jacalyn Duffin



More Than a Prize: The Creation of the Nobel System

Gustav Källstrand



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

Sven Widmalm



LAUREATES AND NOMINEES



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

Scott H. Podolsky



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

Heiner Fangerau, Thorsten Halling, Nils Hansson



Defining ‘cutting-edge’ Excellence: Awarding Nobel Prizes (or Not) to Surgeons

Nils Hansson, David S. Jones and Thomas Schlich



REVERBERATION AND COMMERCIALIZATION



John C. Eccles’ Conversion and the Meanings of ‘Authority’

Fabio De Sio, Nils Hansson and Ulrich Koppitz



The Public Image of Nobel Laureates: The Case of Renato Dulbecco as TV conductor

Massimiano Bucchi



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

Katarina Nordqvist and Pauline Mattsson



Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 24.9.2019
Reihe/Serie Clio Medica ; 98
Verlagsort Leiden
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 1 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik
ISBN-10 90-04-40684-0 / 9004406840
ISBN-13 978-90-04-40684-1 / 9789004406841
Zustand Neuware
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