The ‘Mystery’ of Quantum Physics: Narrating the Wave-Particle Duality in a Richard Feynman Lecture

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction 1
5. Section 1: Science
6. Oedipal Camels? Narrative and Science in Aristotle’s Historia Animalium 27
7. Narrating Bones: Goethe’s Early Osteological Writings from Physiognomy to Type (1776–1794) 45
8. The ‘Mystery’ of Quantum Physics: Narrating the Wave-Particle Duality in a Richard Feynman Lecture 75
9. Of Still Faces and Micro-Plots: Audiovisual Narration in Infant Mental Health 95
10. Section 2: Medicine
11. Narrating Birth: The Emergence of Male Expertise in Obstetrical Case Reports around 1800 119
12. Console, Classify and Advertise: Narrative Structures of Case Reporting and Their Epistemic Function in Early Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry (Pargeter, Arnold, Pinel) 139
13. The Discharge Letter in Clinical Medicine: History and Epistemology of an Unknown Narrative Genre 157
14. “I Had a Patient Who . . .”: Narratives of Vicarious Experience in GPs’ Discourse on Domestic Violence 187
15. Contributors 203
16. Index 205