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Springer, Dordrecht

2017

263 Pages

ISBN 978-3-319-65553-6

Tales of research misconduct

a lacanian diagnostics of integrity challenges in science novels

Hub Zwart

This monograph contributes to the scientific misconduct debate from an oblique perspective, by analysing seven  novels devoted to this issue, namely: Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (1925), The affair by C.P. Snow (1960), Cantor's Dilemma by Carl Djerassi (1989), Perlmann's Silence by Pascal Mercier (1995), Intuition by Allegra Goodman (2006),  Solar by Ian McEwan (2010) and Derailment by Diederik Stapel (2012). Scientific misconduct, i.e. fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, but also other questionable research practices, have become a  focus of concern for academiccommunities worldwide, but also for managers, funders and publishers of research. The aforementioned novels offer intriguing windows into integrity challenges emerging in contemporary research practices. They are analysed from a continental philosophical perspective,  providing a stage where various voices, positions and modes of discourse are mutually exposed to one another, so that they critically address and question one another. They force us to start from the admission that we do not really know what misconduct is. Subsequently, by providing case histories of misconduct, they address integrity challenges not only in terms of individual deviance but also in terms of systemic crisis, due to current transformations in the ways in which knowledge is produced. Rather than functioning as moral vignettes, the author argues that misconduct novels challenge us to reconsider some of the basic conceptual building blocks of integrity discourse.

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Zwart, H. (2017). Tales of research misconduct: a lacanian diagnostics of integrity challenges in science novels, Springer, Dordrecht.

Table of Contents

Introduction

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Into the twentieth century

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85-118

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Phage–ethics

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119-139

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A compartmentalised culture

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141-150

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What do scientists want?

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151-163

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Tainted texts

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165-182

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Suspicious minds

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183-196

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Splitting and conflation

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197-210

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The catwalk and the mousetrap

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211-244

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Concluding remarks

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245-254

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