Recognition for accomplishment is a major institutional reward in the scientific community, thus regulating disputes over credit for discovery, can be viewed as an important problem in social control. Cozzens examines a well-known dispute — one that took place with the discovery of the opiate receptor in neuropharmacological research.
The issues Cozzens discusses — priority disputes, social control, and norms and morals — are important throughout the sciences; they are crucial factors in the lives of scientists, the functioning of scientific communities, and the day-to-day operations of scientific organizations.
- ISBN10 0887069363
- ISBN13 9780887069369
- Publish Date 1 July 1989
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 July 2000
- Publish Country US
- Imprint State University of New York Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 236
- Language English