The Discovery of Insulin: A Case Study of Scientific Methodology

被引：5
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作者：
Stansfield, William D. [1 ]
机构：
[1] Calif Polytech State Univ San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 USA
来源：
AMERICAN BIOLOGY TEACHER | 2012年 / 74卷 / 01期
关键词：
Diabetes; animal welfare; experimental mistakes; Nobel Prize; self-experimentation; trial-and-error procedure;
D O I：
10.1525/abt.2012.74.1.4
中图分类号：
Q [生物科学];
学科分类号：
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要：
The nature of scientific research sometimes involves a trial-and-error procedure. Popular reviews of successful results from this approach often sanitize the story by omitting unsuccessful trials, thus painting the rosy impression that research simply follows a direct route from hypothesis to experiment to scientific discovery. The discovery of insulin is a classical case study in this genre that begs for an explanation to our students because it is so often ignored or misrepresented even in biology and physiology textbooks.
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