Making Marie Curie - Intellectual Property and Celebrity Culture in an Age of Information

Informationen zum Autor Eva Hemmungs Wirten is professor of mediated culture at Linkoping University! Sweden. She is the author of Terms of Use: Negotiating the Jungle of the Intellectual Commons and No Trespassing: Authorship! Intellectual Property Rights! and the Boundaries of Globalization. Klappentext How did one create and maintain for oneself the persona of scientist at the beginning of the twentieth century? What special conditions bore upon scientific women! and on married women in particular? This book provides a composite picture not only of the making of Marie Curie! but the making of modern science itself. Zusammenfassung How did one create and maintain for oneself the persona of scientist at the beginning of the twentieth century? What special conditions bore upon scientific women! and on married women in particular? This book provides a composite picture not only of the making of Marie Curie! but the making of modern science itself.

Product details

• Authors: Eva Hemmungs Wirtaen, Eva Hemmungs Wirten, Wirten Eva Hemmungs
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.03.2015
• EAN: 9780226235844
• ISBN: 978-0-226-23584-4
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: science.culture; Science culture; science.culture; science.culture (CHUP)
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Biographies, autobiographies; SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society, Biography: science, technology & medicine, Biography: science, technology and medicine, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies