For better or for worse? : collaborative couples in the sciences / Annette Lykknes, Donald L. Opitz, Brigitte van Tiggelen, editors.

[Basel] : Birkhäuser ; Heidelberg : Springer Verlag, [2012], ©2012.

xiv, 319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Donald L. Opitz, Annette Lykknes and Brigitte Van Tiggelen -- Part 1. Representing Collaboration -- The Making of a Bestseller: Alexander and Jane Marcet's Conversations on Chemistry / Jean-Jacques Dreifuss and Natalia Tikhonov Sigrist -- Not merely wifely devotion: Collaborating in the Construction of Science at Terling Place / Donald L. Opitz -- The Mystery of the Nobel Laureate and His Vanishing Wife / Joy Harvey -- Part 2. Negotiating Academization -- Married for Science, Divorced for Love: Success and Failure in the Collaboration Between Astrid Cleve and Hans von Euler-Chelpin / Kristina Espmark and Christer Nordlund -- Ida and Walter Noddack Through Better and Worse: An Arbeitsgemeinschaft in Chemistry / Brigitte Van Tiggelen and Annette Lykknes -- A Model Collaborative Couple in Genetics: Anna Rachel Whiting and Phineas Westcott Whiting's Study of Sex Determination in Habrobracon / Marsha L. Richmond -- Part 3. Radicalizing Co-Operation -- Social Reform Collaborations and Gendered Academization: Three Swedish Social Science Couples at the Turn of the Twentieth Century / Per Wisselgren -- Social Science Couples in Britain at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Gender Divisions in Work and Marriage / Eileen Janes Yeo -- Co-operative Comradeships Versus Same-Sex Partnerships: Historicizing Collaboration Among Homosexual Couples in the Sciences / Donald L. Opitz.