Visual Cultures of Science
Rethinking Representational Practices in Knowledge Building and Science Communication
Luc Pauwels, ed.

Dartmouth College Press
University Press of New England

Table of Contents

• Introduction: The Role of Visual Representation in the Production of Scientific Reality • A Theoretical Framework for Assessing Visual Representational Practices in Knowledge Building and Science Communications - Luc Pauwels • The Production of Scientific Images: Vision and Re-Vision in the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science - Michael Lynch • Representing or Mediating: A History and Philosophy of X-ray Images in Medicine - Bernike Pasveer • The Accursed Part of Scientific Iconography - Francesco Panese • Images of Science in the Classroom: Wall Charts and Science Education, 1850–1920 - Massimiano Bucchi • Representing Moving Cultures: Expression, Multivocality, and Reflexivity in Anthropological and Sociological Filmmaking - Luc Pauwels • Arguing with Images: Pauling’s Theory of Antibody Formation - Alberto Cambrosio, Daniel Jacobi, and Peter Keating • Discipline and the Material Form of Images: An Analysis of Scientific Visibility - Michael Lynch • Edward Tufte and the Promise of a Visual Social Science - John Grady • Making Science Visible: Visual Literacy in Science Communication - Jean Trumbo • Contributors • Index




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