Chapter ID: CBB000078191

Plotting a middle ground: An account of a failed science story (1998)

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Description A case study of the controversy surrounding Evelyn Fox Keller's biography of Barbara McClintock.


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Authors & Contributors
Comfort, Nathaniel C.
Fedoroff, Nina V.
Barahona, Ana Echeverría
Spectre, Miriam B.
Shah, Esha
Nash, Jessica
Journals
Journal of the History of Biology
Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Mendel Newsletter
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Publishers
University of Illinois at Chicago
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Harvard University Press
Feminist Press at the City University of New York
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Concepts
Genetics
Biology
Biographies
Women in science
Science and gender
Historical method
People
McClintock, Barbara
Yalow, Rosalyn Sussman
Goodall, Jane
Watson, James Dewey
Franklin, Rosalind
Darwin, Charles Robert
Time Periods
20th century
Places
United States
Great Britain
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