Experiment and Interpretation: Pathologist Reflects on Thirty Years of Cancer Research
Author:   Myer H. Salaman
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9780485114706


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   December 1995
Format:   Hardback
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Experiment and Interpretation: Pathologist Reflects on Thirty Years of Cancer Research


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"How do scientists, medical scientists, in particular, tackle the problems and challenges of their field? Meyer H. Salaman, for many years a leading researcher in cancer, viruses and immunity, describes a series of investigations which exemplify the methods of scientific enquiry. His focus is upon biological research and he relates his own experiences of scientific methods to the concepts advanced by the philosophers of science, above all by Sir Karl Popper, whom he reveres but criticizes. In the author's words, this book is an account of a scientist's ""long struggle to understand the universe and himself"" through his work."

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Author:   Myer H. Salaman
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
ISBN:  

9780485114706


ISBN 10:   0485114704
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   December 1995
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Part 1 Experiment: Carcinogenesis; The State of Cancer Research in mid-20th Century; Tumour Initiation; Tumour Promotion; Latent Tumour Cells; The Localization of Tumours; The Virology of Neoplasia; The Immunology of Neoplasia. Part 2 Interpretation: The Freedom of Conjectures; Unexpected Observations; Corroboration and Refutation. Part 3 Reflections: A Scientist's Assumptions; Hume and the Scientist; The Impact of Karl Popper; Conjecture and Test versus Induction; Are Theories Prior to Experience?; The Function of Corroboration; Hume's Alleged Irrationality; Hume, Russell and Popper, on Reason and the Passions; How Logical are Mental Processes?; The Role of Induction in the Evolution of Species.

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