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...publishing industry. “There was once the post-Gutenberg generation. Now we are dealing with the post-Google generation,” says Sharmilla Sen ’92, an acquisition editor for the Humanities. Still, the editors are confident that the services they provide to academia and readers at large will not become obsolete. “We perform a scholarly function—it’s eminently transportable to other media,” Knoll says. They hope that while information-gathering is changing, the book will remain relevant. “In 20 years...
...Still, the editors are confident that the services they provide to academia and readers at large will not become obsolete. “We perform a scholarly function—it’s eminently transportable to other media,” Knoll says. They hope that while information-gathering is changing, the book will remain relevant...
...Critics lament that animal studies programs privilege a particular theme (here, animals) over a mode of inquiry (for example, scientific analysis), while favoring a politicization of academia by conveying overt animal -rights messages...
...politicization critique bears more weight but does not warrant derision. Many (though by no means all) animal studies scholars do support animal rights, just as African American studies scholars typically favor civil rights, and environmental studies and women studies scholars are often environmentalists and feminists, respectively. Academia is full of normative debates demanding opinions; what matters is that all viewpoints are presented and that critical discourse is encouraged...
...allowed to own stock in any of the drug companies they help oversee. However, William D. Hoffman, an assistant professor of surgery at Mass. General, said that these policies do not go far enough to prevent conflicts of interest in industry-funded research. He said that researchers in academia should have primary control over the data, and that currently many investigators are provided with summary data by the industry and are not allowed to conduct their own data analysis, which is done by the drug company itself. He said pharmaceutical companies might not release data that are damaging to their...