This open access monograph contributes to the scientific misconduct debate from an oblique perspective, by analyzing six novels devoted to the 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) and Solar by Ian McEwan (2010). Scientific misconduct, i.e. fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, but also other questionable research practices, has become the focus of concern for academic communities 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. They provide 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 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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- ISBN: 978-3-319-65553-6
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 165
- Fecha Publicación: 18/10/2017
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés