Sökning: "kontrovers"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 13 avhandlingar innehållade ordet kontrovers.
1. Kunskap, kontrovers och kvicksilver : debatten om amalgamförgiftning i det sena 1900-talets Sverige
Sammanfattning : This dissertation in the history of science and ideas studies the Swedish dental amalgam controversy in the late 20th century. Erupting in the early 1980s, the controversy concerned the issue of whether mercury containing dental amalgams could poison those who had had their teeth filled, or whether the many patients making such claims were in fact suffering from stress, unresolved trauma, or other illnesses. LÄS MER
2. Bränsle för den moderna nationen : Etanol och gengas i Sverige under mellankrigstiden och andra världskriget
Sammanfattning : This thesis investigate Swedish policy-making concerning promotion of wood gas and ethanol distilled from fermented sulphite lye as domestic fuel alternatives in the Interwar years and World War II. With a departure point in the theories of social constructions of technology (SCOT), the sociology of expectations and Thomas P. LÄS MER
3. Making Doable Problems within Controversial Science : U.S. and Swedish Scientists’ Experience of Gene Transfer Research
Sammanfattning : This thesis explores how scientists within the controversial scientific field of gene transfer make their research doable. Based on in-depth interviews with gene transfer scientists and key individuals from different regulatory agencies and advisory boards in Sweden and the U.S.A. LÄS MER
4. Omvänt perspektiv i bildkonst och kontrovers : En kritisk begreppshistoria från det gångna seklet
Sammanfattning : Throughout the past century the concept of an inverted perspective, understood as a stylistic trait in Late Classical, Byzantine and Medieval art, has been at the centre of a controversy. The dissertation aims at giving a favourable presentation of "inverted perspective" as a critical concept with a fairly well-defined frame of reference, although efforts to make such a definition a reductionist, fixed meaning tied to a stable system of Geometrical optics will be regarded as unnecessary. LÄS MER
5. Omvänt perspektiv: i konst och kontrovers
Sammanfattning : The text argues for the reconsideration of inverted perspective as an heuristic tool in historical research. The interpretations of inverted perspective presented by Oskar Wulff, André Grabar, and Gervase Mathew are taken as starting point for a developed... LÄS MER
