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Visual Cultures of Science
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The Role of Visual Representation in the Production of Scientific Reality; A Theoretical Framework for Assessing Visual Representational Practices in Knowledge Building and Science Communications; The Production of Scientific Images: Vision and Re-Vision in the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science; Representing or Mediating: a History and Philosophy of X-ray Images in Medicine; The Accursed Part of Scientific Iconography; Images of Science in the Classroom: Natural History Wall Charts between the Two Centuries; Representing Moving Cultures: Aesthetics, Multivocality and Reflexivity in Anthropological and Sociological Filmmaking; Arguing with Images: Pauling's Theory of Antibody Formation; Discipline and Material Form of Images: An Analysis of Scientific Visibility; Edward Tufte and the Promise of a Visual Social Science; Making Science Visible: Visual Literacy in Science Communication.

About the Author

LUC PAUWELS is Associate Professor of Communication Science at the University of Antwerp. His previous publications include De Verbeelde Samenleving (Imaging Society) and articles in Visual Studies, Visual Sociology, and Journal of Visual Literacy.

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Education professionals or graduate students who are interested in visual representation in the pedagogy and general understanding of natural and social sciences would most benefit from reading this book. Choice"

This volume is an exemplary manifestation of visual literacy and testifies to the empirical as well as the epistemological richness of this field of research in the history of science. Isis"

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