Overview
- The volume provides a fresh look at the nature of scientific collaboration in its rigorous examination of a broad range of partnerships, including homosexual and non-traditional relationships, across the disciplines and over a period of two centuries
- The book newly analyzes the productive infrastructure of modern science, with particular attention to discipline-formation within collaborative contexts outside conventional places like the academy
- The chapters illuminate key advances in chemistry, physics, genetics, and sociology in terms of collaborative research practices
- The volume contributes to new trends in science studies in its attention to the visual and textual cultures of science, geographies of science, and class and gender dynamics
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Science Networks. Historical Studies (SNHS, volume 44)
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (10 chapters)
-
Negotiating Academization
-
Radicalizing Co-Operation
Keywords
About this book
In this volume, a distinguished set of international scholars examine the nature of collaboration between life partners in the sciences, with particular attention to the ways in which personal and professional dynamics can foster or inhibit scientific practice. Breaking from traditional gender analyses which focus on divisions of labor and the assignment of credit, the studies scrutinize collaboration as a variable process between partners living in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries who were married and divorced, heterosexual and homosexual, aristocratic and working-class and politically right and left. The contributors analyze cases shaped by their particular geographical locations, ranging from retreat settings like the English countryside and Woods Hole, Massachusetts, to university laboratories and urban centers in Berlin, Stockholm, Geneva and London. The volume demonstrates how the terms and meanings of collaboration, variably shaped by disciplinary imperatives, cultural mores, and the agency of the collaborators themselves, illuminate critical intellectual and institutional developments in the modern sciences.
Reviews
“This volume will be of interest to historians of science, to scientists, and to anyone interested in understanding the production of science that is embedded in the social and political fabric of history.” (Elena Serrano, AMBIX, Vol. 62 (2), May, 2015)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: For Better or For Worse? Collaborative Couples in the Sciences
Editors: Annette Lykknes, Donald L. Opitz, Brigitte Van Tiggelen
Series Title: Science Networks. Historical Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-0286-4
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Basel AG 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-0348-0285-7Published: 07 June 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-0348-0750-0Published: 17 July 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-0348-0286-4Published: 05 June 2012
Series ISSN: 1421-6329
Series E-ISSN: 2296-6080
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 322
Topics: History of Mathematical Sciences, History of Science, Chemistry/Food Science, general, Physics, general, Animal Genetics and Genomics, Plant Genetics and Genomics
Industry Sectors: Electronics