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Title:	'Making Science Understandable'. Divulgació científica i mediació editorial: el cas de The Wisdom of the Body de Walter B. Cannon (1871-1945)
Author:	Martínez Vidal, Àlvar; Sallent Del Colombo, Emma
Other authors:	Universitat de Barcelona
Abstract:	The present paper aims at an historical reconstruction, in the framework of the publishing industry in the years between the two World Wars, of the role played by the publisher William W. Norton in the genesis, published in 1932, and new edition in 1938, of Walter B. Cannon"s book The Wisdom of the Body. With the analysis of this case study, we aimed at contributing to the current criticism of the «dominant view», which tries, in an uncritical manner, that scientific popularization follows an ineluctable, continuous and linear evolution.
Subject(s):	-Divulgació científica -Edició -Nova York (Nova York) -Estats Units d'Amèrica -Science news -Editing -New York (New York) -United States -Cannon, Walter B. Wisdom of the body
Rights:	cc-by-nc-nd (c) Martínez Vidal, Àlvar et al., 2009 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es
Document type:	Article Article - Published version
Published by:	Institut d'Estudis Catalans
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