Failure : why science is so successful / Stuart Firestein.

By: Firestein, Stuart [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]Copyright date: 2016Description: 1 online resource (301 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780199390113Subject(s): Failure (Psychology) | Science -- Philosophy | Discoveries in scienceGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Failure : why science is so successful.DDC classification: 501 LOC classification: BF575.F14 | F567 2015Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Introduction -- Failing to define failure -- Fail better : advice from samuel beckett -- The scientific basis of failure -- The unreasonable success of failure -- The integrity of failure -- Teaching failure -- The arc of failure -- The scientific method of failure -- Failure in the clinic -- How to love your data when it's wrong : negative results -- Philosopher of failure -- Funding failure -- Pharma failure -- A plurality of failures -- CODA.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Failing to define failure -- Fail better : advice from samuel beckett -- The scientific basis of failure -- The unreasonable success of failure -- The integrity of failure -- Teaching failure -- The arc of failure -- The scientific method of failure -- Failure in the clinic -- How to love your data when it's wrong : negative results -- Philosopher of failure -- Funding failure -- Pharma failure -- A plurality of failures -- CODA.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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