Pharmaceutical matters: The invention of informed materials
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Efforts are being made to understand drug molecules as informed materials and the role of combinatorial and computational chemistry in increasing the informational and material environment of potential drug molecules is examined. It is seen that pharmaceutical companies play an important role in discovering the molecular structures that could possibly exist and also develop new forms of chemical entity.
Publication Name: Theory, Culture & Society
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0263-2764
Year: 2005
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'Contemplating a self-portrait as a pharmacist': A trade mark style of doing art and science
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The possibility of viewing artist Damien Hirst as a brand name is examined. Damien Hirst represents himself as a pharmacist rather than a scientist and highlights the role of branding in shifts in the process of creativity, invention and discovery across the arts and sciences.
Publication Name: Theory, Culture & Society
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0263-2764
Year: 2005
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Information and knowledge
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The relationship between knowledge and information is explored. Knowledge can be considered as a mnemically and organizationally confirmed meaning whereas information consists of the process of temporization of the meaning.
Publication Name: Theory, Culture & Society
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0263-2764
Year: 2005
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