Table of Contents

Introduction: The Communicative Functions of Silence in Science

Part 1: Choosing Silence

1. 'He Didn't Go Round the Conference Circuit Talking About It': Oral Histories of Joseph Farman and the Ozone Hole

2. Dawin's Silence: An Anatomy of Quietude

3. 'Tired with this Subject...': Issac Newton on Publishing and the Ideal Natural Philosopher

4. Engineers at the Patient's Bedside: The Case of Silence in Inter-institutional Educational Innovation

Part 2: Cultures of Silence

5. Talking About Secrets: The Hanford Nuclear Facility and News Reporting of Silence, 1945-1989

6. Silence and Selection: The 'Trick' Cyclist at the War Office Selection Boards

7. The Silenced Subject: Oral History and the Experience of Cancer Research

8. Reconstructing Ancient Thought- The Case of Ancient Egyptian Mathematics

9. The (non)-conveying of the Experiential in Scientific Accounts of Buddhist Meditation

Part 3: Silences in the Public Sphere

10. The Silent Introduction of Synthetic Dyestuffs into Nineteenth Century Food

11. Having It All: Ownership in Open Science

12. Shocking Silences: The Management and Distribution of Silences Around TASER™

13. 'An Outcry of Silences': Charles Hoy Fort and the Uncanny Voices of Science

About the Author

Felicity Mellor is Senior Lecturer in Science Communication at Imperial College London, UK. Her research examines the representation of science in the media and the ideological dimensions of scientists’ public discourse. She is editor, along with Alice Bell and Sarah Davies, of Science and its Publics (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009).

Stephen Webster is Director of the Science Communication Unit at Imperial College London, UK. His books include Charles Darwin (Stroud: The History Press, 2015) and Thinking about Biology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).