Failure : why science is so successful
(2016)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
501/FIRESTEIN,S
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
DESCRIPTION
xi, 286 pages ; 19 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780199390106, 019939010X, 9780199390106, 019939010X :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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