Research is not a straightforward winner-take-all endeavour Plainpicture/OJO/Adam Gault
SCIENTISTS are accustomed to investigating the natural world and to drawing conclusions about it. In Model Behavior, historian of science Nicole Nelson turns the spotlight on them for a change.
Like an anthropologist facing a new tribe, Nelson focuses her keen analytical mind on a US team researching the genetics of alcoholism in mice. The result is a stimulating and challenging exploration of science, and of how social scientists think about science. Everybody wins.
Nelson was allowed not only to observe lab meetings and experiments, but to be involved in data…
