{"product_id":"how-well-do-facts-travel-the-dissemination-of-reliable-knowledge-hardback-9780521196543","title":"How Well Do Facts Travel?; The Dissemination of Reliable Knowledge (Hardback) 9780521196543","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eHow Well Do Facts Travel?\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Dissemination of Reliable Knowledge\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFacts often acquire a life of their own; the stories in this book explain why.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePeter Howlett (Edited by), Mary S. Morgan (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521196543, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 November 2010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e488 pages, 51 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.7 x 3.1 cm, 0.78 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Philosophers of science have long talked about fruitfulness as a criteria of scientific merit. This collection asks how ideas - or facts - actually get to be recognized and used; it is a major contribution that greatly deepens this important problem.' Stephen P. Turner, University of South Florida\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book discusses how facts travel, and when and why they sometimes travel well enough to acquire a life of their own. Whether or not facts travel in this manner depends not only on their character and ability to play useful roles elsewhere, but also on the labels, packaging, vehicles and company that take them across difficult terrains and over disciplinary boundaries. These diverse stories of travelling facts, ranging from architecture to nanotechnology and from romance fiction to climate science, change the way we see the nature of facts. Facts are far from the bland and rather boring but useful objects that scientists and humanists produce and fit together to make narratives, arguments and evidence. Rather, their extraordinary abilities to travel well shows when, how and why facts can be used to build further knowledge beyond and away from their sites of original production and intended use.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Travelling facts Mary S. Morgan\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Matters of Fact: 2. Facts and building artefacts: what travels in material objects? Simona Valeriani\u003cbr\u003e 3. A journey through times and cultures? Ancient Greek forms in American nineteenth-century architecture: an archaeological view Lambert Schneider\u003cbr\u003e 4. Manning's N: putting roughness to work Sarah J. Whatmore and Catharina Landström\u003cbr\u003e 5. My facts are better than your facts: spreading good news about global warming Naomi Oreskes\u003cbr\u003e 6. Real problems with fictional cases Jon Adams\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Integrity and Fruitfulness: 7. Ethology's travelling facts Richard Burkhardt\u003cbr\u003e 8. Travelling facts about crowded rats: rodent experimentation and the human sciences Ed Ramsden\u003cbr\u003e 9. Using cases to establish novel diagnoses: creating generic facts by making particular facts travel together Rachel Ankeny\u003cbr\u003e 10. Technology transfer and travelling facts: a perspective from Indian agriculture Peter Howlett and Aashish Velkar\u003cbr\u003e 11. Archaeological facts in transit: the eminent mounds of central North America Alison Wylie\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Companionship and Character: 12. Packaging small facts for re-use: databases in model organism biology Sabina Leonelli\u003cbr\u003e 13. Designed for travel: communicating facts through images Martina Merz\u003cbr\u003e 14. Using models to keep us healthy: the productive journeys of facts across public health research networks Erika Mansnerus\u003cbr\u003e 15. The facts of life and death: a case of exceptional longevity David Haycock\u003cbr\u003e 16. 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