Social Control and Multiple Discovery in Science

Social Control and Multiple Discovery in Science
By:"Susan E. Cozzens"
Published on 1989 by SUNY Press

E-book Library:"Medical"

Recognition for accomplishment is a major institutional reward in the scientific community, thus regulating disputes over credit for discovery, can be viewed as an important problem in social control. Cozzens examines a well-known dispute one that took place with the discovery of the opiate receptor in neuropharmacological research. The issues Cozzens discusses priority disputes, social control, and norms and morals are important throughout the sciences; they are crucial factors in the lives of scientists, the functioning of scientific communities, and the day-to-day operations of scientific organizations.\

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