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Scientists as prophets : a rhetorical genealogy
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Title
Scientists as prophets : a rhetorical genealogy / Lynda Walsh.
ISBN
9780199857098 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0199857091 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780199857111 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0199857113 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Publication
New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
Physical Description
x, 264 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 25, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Prelude: scientists as prophets and the rhetoric of prophecy
The Delphic oracle and ancient prophetic ethos
The natural magician and the prophet: Francis Bacon's ethical alchemy
Confirming signs: the prophetic ethos of the early Royal Society
Interlude: competing ethical models and a catch-22
J. Robert Oppenheimer: cultic prophet
Rachel Carson, kairotic prophet
Media, metaphor, and the "oracles of science"
Climate change and the technologies of prophecy
Postlude: problems and solutions.
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