Investigating interdisciplinary collaboration : theory and practice across disciplines
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Investigating interdisciplinary collaboration : theory and practice across disciplines
（The American campus / Harold S. Wechsler, series editor）
Rutgers University Press, c2017
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Interdisciplinarity has become a buzzword in academia, as research universities funnel their financial resources toward collaborations between faculty in different disciplines. In theory, interdisciplinary collaboration breaks down artificial divisions between different departments, allowing more innovative and sophisticated research to flourish. But does it actually work this way in practice? Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration puts the common beliefs about such research to the test, using empirical data gathered by scholars from the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. The book's contributors critically interrogate the assumptions underlying the fervor for interdisciplinarity. Their attentive scholarship reveals how, for all its potential benefits, interdisciplinary collaboration is neither immune to academia's status hierarchies, nor a simple antidote to the alleged shortcomings of disciplinary study.
Chapter 10 is available Open Access here (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK395883)
Table of Contents
ForewordHelga Nowotny
PrefaceScott Frickel, Mathieu Albert, and Barbara Prainsack
Introduction: Investigating InterdisciplinaritiesScott Frickel, Mathieu Albert, and Barbara Prainsack
Part I: Interdisciplinary Cultures and Careers
Chapter 1: New Directions, New Challenges: Trials and Tribulations of Interdisciplinary ResearchDave McBee and Erin Leahey
Chapter 2: The Frictions of Interdisciplinarity: The Case of the Wisconsin Institutes for DiscoveryGregory J. Downey, Noah Weeth Feinstein, Daniel Lee Kleinman, Sigrid Peterson, and Chisato Fukuda
Chapter 3: Epistemic Cultures of Collaboration: Coherence and Ambiguity in InterdisciplinarityLaurel Smith-Doerr, Jennifer Croissant, Itai Vardi, and Timothy Sacco
Chapter 4: Interdisciplinary Fantasy: Social Scientists and Humanities Scholars Working in Faculties of MedicineMathieu Albert, Elise Paradis, and Ayelet Kuper
Part II: Disciplines and Interdisciplinarity
Chapter 5: Some Dark Sides of Interdisciplinarity: The Case of Behavior GeneticsAaron Panofsky
Chapter 6: A Dynamic, Multidimensional Approach to Knowledge ProductionRyan Light and jimi adams
Chapter 7: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Change in Six Social Sciences: A Longitudinal ComparisonScott Frickel and Ali O. Ilhan
Part III: Changing Context of Interdisciplinary Research
Chapter 8: "An Electro-Historical Focus with Real Interdisciplinary Appeal": Interdisciplinarity at Vietnam-Era StanfordCyrus C.M. Mody
Chapter 9: Interdisciplinarity Reloaded? Drawing lessons from "Citizen Science"Barbara Prainsack and Hauke Riesch
Chapter 10: One Medicine? Advocating (Inter)disciplinarity at the Interfaces of Animal Health, Human Health and the EnvironmentAngela Cassidy
Notes on Contributors
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