EAN: 9783899718317

INTERFACING SCIENCE LITERATURE AND THE HUMANITI...

Discourses and Narrations in the Biosciences investigates the forms of writing in which
scientific claims are formulated and announced. Argumentative strategies  compositional rules 
and figurative expressions in communication and narrativization of scientific knowledge are the
focus of interdisciplinary contributions by humanities and science scholars.The first part of
the book  dedicated to 'Rhetorical and Epistemological Aspects of Science Writing'  addresses
how scientific pursuits and methods feed into multi-level texts that generate responses within
science  society  and culture. The second part  entitled 'Bioscientific Discourses and
Narrations'  examines popularizations and fictionalizations of science in relation to diversity
deviancy  ageing  illness  reproduction  the evolution of humankind  mathematical models of
biomedical systems  and the myth of the heroic scientist.Assessing the narrative impetus and
command of literary and meta-discoursive strategies shown by contemporary science writers
enhances understanding of the methods and conventions through which the biosciences produce
knowledge.

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