Introduction

an oblique perspective on research misconduct

1-23

Conceptual and methodological framework

Lacanian psychoanalysis

25-55

Knowledge, power and the self

preliminary explorations

57-83

Into the twentieth century

the case of Robert Oppenheimer

85-118

Phage–ethics

a lacanian reading of Sinclair Lewis's arrowsmith

119-139

A compartmentalised culture

Snow's The affaire

141-150

What do scientists want?

perverse incentives and replication traumas in Cantor's dilemma

151-163

Tainted texts

plagiarism and self-exploitation in Perlmann's silence

165-182

Suspicious minds

Allegra Goodman's intuition

183-196

Splitting and conflation

plagiarism in Ian McEwan's solar

197-210

The catwalk and the mousetrap

reading Diederik Stapel's Derailment as a misconduct novel

211-244

Concluding remarks

Roman Jakobson

245-254