Who are scientists? What kind of people are they? What capacities and virtues are thought to stand behind their considerable authority? They are experts—indee

Being, or wanting to become, a scientist requires academic training in the science subjects. To succeed as a research scientist and educator requires specific a

Who are scientists? What kind of people are they? What capacities and virtues are thought to stand behind their considerable authority? They are experts—indee

The first in the Focus Series on Global Science Education, The Whys of a Scientific Life examines why scientists do what they do. Working from a diverse backgro

This highly original work presents laboratory science in a deliberately skeptical way: as an anthropological approach to the culture of the scientist. Drawing o