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Social Construction in a Cold Climate: A Response to David Harley, Rhetoric and the Social Construction of Sickness and Healing and to Paolo Palladino's Comment on Harley
* Research Fellow, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL 24 Eversholt St, London NW1 1AD, UK. E-mail: i.dalley-crozier{at}wellcome.ac.uk
The relation of rhetoric to science depends also on whetherto put the two extremesscience is perceived as accretive and progressive or as largely a history of dead ends in experiment and odd dead facts now to be read only as allegories of the society that produced them. (Gillian Beer and Herminio Martins1)