List of illustrations ......................................... vii
List of contributors ......................................... viii
Introduction: The communicative functions of silence in
science ......................................................... 1
FELICITY MELLOR
PART I Choosing silence ....................................... 29
1 'He didn't go round the conference circuit talking about
it': Oral histories of Joseph Farman and the ozone hole ..... 31
PAUL MERCHANT
2 Darwin's silence: An anatomy of quietude .................... 48
STEPHEN WEBSTER
3 'Tired with this subject ...': Isaac Newton on publishing
and the ideal natural philosopher ........................... 65
CORNELIS J. SCHILT
4 Engineers at the patient's bedside: The case of silence in
inter-institutional educational innovation .................. 89
NICK W. VEROUDEN, MAARTEN C.A. VAN DER SANDEN AND
NOELLE M.N.C. AARTS
PART II Cultures of silence .................................. 113
5 Talking about secrets: The Hanford nuclear facility and
news reporting of silence, 1945-1989 ....................... 115
DANIELE MACUGLIA
6 Silence and selection: The 'trick cyclist' at the War
Office Selection Boards .................................... 135
ALICE WHITE
7 The silenced subject: Oral history and the experience of
cancer research ............................................ 152
CATRIONA GILMOUR HAMILTON
8 Reconstructing ancient thought: The case of Ancient
Egyptian mathematics ....................................... 172
ELIZABETH HIND
9 Meditations on silence: The (non-)conveying of the
experiential in scientific accounts of Buddhist
meditation ................................................. 193
BRIAN RAPPERT, CATELIJNE COOPMANS AND GIOVANNA COLOMBETTI
PART III Silences in tiie public sphere ...................... 219
10 The silent introduction of synthetic dyestuffs into
nineteenth-century food .................................... 221
CAROLYN COBBOLD
11 Having it all: Ownership in open science ................... 241
ANN GRAND
12 Shocking silences: The management and distribution of
silences around TASERTM .................................... 253
ABI DYMOND
13 'An outcry of silences': Charles Hoy Fort and the uncanny
voices of science .......................................... 274
CHARLOTTE SLEIGH
Index ......................................................... 296
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