Case Studies and the Dissemination of Knowledge
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This volume investigates the history of the case study genre and its relationship to different publics and audiences, from patients to social reformers, and from moral crusaders to literary audiences. It interrogates not only how case studies were used to communicate the findings of doctors, lawyers, and psychoanalysts, but also how case studies were used to refute and dispute academic knowledge. Contributors engage with case studies as a site of interdisciplinary negotiations and transnational influences and transferences, including the ways in which larger historical and geopolitical forces…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
This volume investigates the history of the case study genre and its relationship to different publics and audiences, from patients to social reformers, and from moral crusaders to literary audiences. It interrogates not only how case studies were used to communicate the findings of doctors, lawyers, and psychoanalysts, but also how case studies were used to refute and dispute academic knowledge. Contributors engage with case studies as a site of interdisciplinary negotiations and transnational influences and transferences, including the ways in which larger historical and geopolitical forces shaped a genre central to so many disciplinary and knowledge cultures.
Autorenporträt
Joy Damousi is Professor of History in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. Birgit Lang is Senior Lecturer in German at the School of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Melbourne. Katie Sutton is a Lecturer in German and Gender Studies at the Australian National University.