"Making Science Understandable"
The present paper aims at an historical reconstruction, in the framework of the publishing industry in the years between the two World Wars, of the role played by the publisher William W. Norton in the genesis, published in 1932, and new edition in 1938, of Walter B. Cannon's book The Wisdom of...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2009 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB |
| Idioma: | catalán |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ddd.uab.cat:69298 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/69298 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Divulgació científica Edició Període d'entreguerres Nova York Divulgación científica Edición Período de entreguerras Nueva York Boston Cannon, Walter B Norton, William W Scientific popularization Editing Interwar years New York |
| Resumo: | The present paper aims at an historical reconstruction, in the framework of the publishing industry in the years between the two World Wars, of the role played by the publisher William W. Norton in the genesis, published in 1932, and new edition in 1938, of Walter B. Cannon's book The Wisdom of the Body. With the analysis of this case study, we aimed at contributing to the current criticism of the «dominant view», which tries, in an uncritical manner, that scientific popularization follows an ineluctable, continuous and linear evolution |
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