Writing about Lives in Science : (Auto)Biography, Gender, and Genre

Writing about Lives in Science : (Auto)Biography, Gender, and Genre

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FörlagV&R Unipress
ISBN9783847002635

Following discussions on scientific biography carried out over the past few decades, this book proposes a kaleidoscopic survey of the uses of biography as a tool to understand science and its context. It offers food for thought on the role played by the gender of the biographer and the biographee in