Scientific authority & twentieth-century America
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Scientific authority & twentieth-century America
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997
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Scientific authority and twentieth-century America
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-259) and index
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: hbk ISBN 9780801853890
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Turn-of-the-century Americans strongly believed that science - "disinterested" and authoritative - could help in both organizing society and understanding the natural world. Yet today, even scientists themselves are raising disturbing questions about the nature and practice of science. In "Scientific Authority and 20th-Century America" Ronald G. Walters brings together a distinguished group of contributors to reflect - often critically - on scientific and medical claims to moral, social and political authority. Writing from a variety of perspectives - intellectual history, social history, feminist theory, philosophy, medical history, political theory and visual analysis - the authors demonstrate that science no longer belongs exclusively to its practitioners or to any particular discipline. Situating science within other communities of discourse, they show how language and metaphor spread outward from science into new realms, including popular culture, where they came into conflict with other languages of authority.
They also show how medical authority shapes social behaviour, how corporate agricultural science has displaced farmers' knowledge, and how popular science enters the collective imagination.
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: pbk ISBN 9780801853906
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Turn-of-the-century Americans strongly believed that science - "disinterested" and authoritative - could help them to organize society and understand the natural world. Yet today, even scientists themselves are raising disturbing questions about the nature and practice of science. In this study Ronald G. Walters brings together a distinguished group of contributors to reflect, often critically, on scientific and medical claims to moral, social, and political authority. Writing from a variety of perspectives - intellectual history, social history, feminist theory, philosophy, medical history, political theory, and visual analysis - the authors demonstrate that science no longer belongs exclusively to its practitioners or to any particular discipline.
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