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- Title
"TO FLY UNDER BORROWED COLOURS": INSULIN DISCOVERY ACCOUNTS, SCIENTIFIC CREDIT, AND THE NOBEL PRIZE.
- Authors
JORGENSEN-EARP, CHERYL R.; JORGENSEN, DARWIN D.
- Abstract
The struggle over credit for the discovery of insulin serves as one of the ugliest examples of the tensions and rivalries inherent in the growth of large-scale laboratory science. An understanding of this historic controversy also lends insight into the use of informal self-narratives directed to the scientifıc community in the negotiation of credit for discovery. Such informal accounts constitute a distinct form of argumentative address that is separate both from formal oral and written presentations of research, also aimed at a scientifıc audience, and popularized accounts aimed at a lay audience. In providing informal self-narratives to their scientifıc peers, the four insulin principals discussed in this article apparently shared a tacit understanding of the narrative grounds on which they could base their claims for discovery credit. In this study, we uncover widespread thematic similarities within these narratives, possibly indicating a common set of criteria within the scientifıc community for judging not only formal scientifıc proof but also the narrative proof found in informal discovery accounts.
- Subjects
INSULIN research; NOBEL Prizes; LABORATORIES; SCIENTIFIC community; INFORMAL evaluation; SCIENTIFIC discoveries; HISTORY of research
- Publication
Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 2020, Vol 23, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1094-8392
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.14321/rhetpublaffa.23.1.0001