Scientific Authorship

Mario Biagioli is Professor of the History of Science at Harvard and author of Galileo, Courtier. He is editor of The Science Studies Reader (Routledge). Peter Galison is Mallinkrodt Professor of the History of Science at Harvard. He is the author of several books, including Image and Logic and is editor, with Caroline Jones, of Picturing Science, Producing Art (Routledge).

• Introduction, Mario Biagioli, Peter Galison; Part I Emergence of Authorship; Chapter 1 Foucault’s Chiasmus, Roger Chartier; Chapter 2 Butter for Parsnips, Rob Iliffe; Chapter 3 The Ambivalence of Authorship in Early Modern Natural Philosophy, Adrian Johns; Chapter 4 The Uses of Anonymity in the Age of Reason, Mary Terrall; Chapter 5 Can Artisans Be Scientific Authors?, Myles W. Jackson; Chapter 6 “A Very Hard Nut to Crack”, Andrew Warwick; Part II Limits of Authorship; Chapter 7 Emergent Relations, Marilyn Strathern; Chapter 8 Beyond Authorship, Peter Jaszi, Martha Woodmansee; Chapter 9 Uncommon Controversies, Corynne Mcsherry; Part III The Fragmentation of Authorship; Chapter 10 Rights or Rewards?, Mario Biagioli; Chapter 11 The Death of the Authors of Death, Hugh Gusterson; Chapter 12 “Discourses of Circumstance”, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger; Chapter 13 The Collective Author, Peter Galison; Part IV Commentaries; credits End Credits, Tom Conley; author What Is Not a Scientific Author?, Mark Rose;

"'What is an author?' is a question that has been central to cultural and literary studies for almost thirty years. This collection of essays open up genuinely new perspectives on this question and shows us how much science studies has to contribute to fundamental issues in the humanities." -- Arnold I. Davidson, University of Chicago