The Everyday Practice of Science

这个应用程序请求支持准备一份书本长度的手稿，标题为：《科学的日常实践》。拟议的这本书将面向科学家、教育工作者、政策制定者和对科学感兴趣的普通公众。清楚地了解生物医学研究的实践对于科学法规、政策和教育以及公众对科学的理解都具有重要的意义。哲学家和历史学家对科学的描述大多是从理论的角度写的，社会学家和人类学家则是从文化的角度写的。相比之下，私家侦探的观点是 参与日常练习。由此产生的对科学的描述包含了直觉、创造力和激情，而不放弃逻辑、客观性和方法。此外，PI将他对实践的描述与对实践的伦理维度的探索结合在一起，从而将他作为细胞生物学教授和德克萨斯大学西南大学科学和医学伦理学项目主任的角色融合在一起。这本书的第一部分将通过关注发现、可信度和自身利益来提供对实践的一般描述。发现意味着学习关于世界的新事物；可信度意味着让同龄人相信这些发现是正确的；利己主义影响着这一过程的每一步。这本书的第二部分 将侧重于与人类研究、遗传学以及科学和其他实践世界方式之间的关系有关的实践的具体方面。如果这个申请得到资助，那么PI打算在接下来的三年里花费30%的时间来撰写 建议出版的书。

This application requests support for preparation of a book-length manuscript entitled: "The Everyday Practice of Science." The proposed book will be directed towards scientists, educators, policy makers, and the general public interested in science. A clear understanding of the practice of biomedical research has important implications for science regulation, policy, and education as well as the public understanding of science. Most descriptions of science have been written from a theoretical perspective by philosophers and historians or from a cultural perspective by sociologists and anthropologists. In contrast, the PI's point of view is engagement in everyday practice. The resulting description of science embraces intuition, creativity, and passion without abandoning logic, objectivity and method. Moreover, the PI integrates his description of practice with exploration of the ethical dimensions of practice, thereby blending his roles as professor of cell biology and director of the ethics in science and medicine program at UT Southwestern. The first part of the book will offer a general description of practice by focusing on discovery, credibility, and self interest. Discovery means learning new things about the world; credibility means convincing one's peers that the discoveries are correct; self-interest influences every step of the process. The second part of the book will focus on specific aspects of practice relating to human research, genetics, and the relationship between science and other ways of practicing the world. If this application is funded, then the PI intends to devote 30% of his time over the next three years to write the proposed book.