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Failure : why science is so successful /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Firestein, Stuart
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Failure (Psychology)
Science > Philosophy.
Discoveries in science.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.