Full Description
Attributing Excellence in Medicine: The History of the Nobel Prize investigates the history of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. It discusses the aura around this prestigious award and which social processes and contingent factors behind the scenes result in recognition and reputation in medicine. The anthology will help the reader to better understand the social dynamics of scientific recognition and reputation throughout the 20th century and provide new perspectives on excellence in science and medicine.
Contributors are Massimiano Bucchi, Fabio De Sio, Jacalyn Duffin, Heiner Fangerau, Thorsten Halling, Nils Hansson, David S. Jones, Gustav Källstrand, Ulrich Koppitz, Pauline Mattsson, Katarina Nordqvist, Scott H. Podolsky, Thomas Schlich, and Sven Widmalm.
Contents
Foreword by Jeffrey Flier
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Attributing Excellence in Medicine: The History of the Nobel Prize
Nils Hansson, Thorsten Halling and Heiner Fangerau
THE AWARD AND BEYOND
Commemorating Excellence: the Nobel Prize and the Secular Religion of Science
Jacalyn Duffin
More Than a Prize: The Creation of the Nobel System
Gustav Källstrand
Hitler's Boycott: Cultural Politics and the Rhetoric of Neutrality
Sven Widmalm
LAUREATES AND NOMINEES
From Global Recognition to Global Health: Antimicrobials and the Nobel Prize, 1901-2015
Scott H. Podolsky
Discovery or Reputation? Jacques Loeb and the Role of Nomination Networks
Heiner Fangerau, Thorsten Halling, Nils Hansson
Defining 'cutting-edge' Excellence: Awarding Nobel Prizes (or Not) to Surgeons
Nils Hansson, David S. Jones and Thomas Schlich
REVERBERATION AND COMMERCIALIZATION
John C. Eccles' Conversion and the Meanings of 'Authority'
Fabio De Sio, Nils Hansson and Ulrich Koppitz
The Public Image of Nobel Laureates: The Case of Renato Dulbecco as TV conductor
Massimiano Bucchi
Nobel Prize Awarded Discoveries and Commercialization: The Role of the Laureates
Katarina Nordqvist and Pauline Mattsson
Index
