| Description |
1 online resource (x, 264 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| 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. |
| Summary |
In this work, Lynda Walsh argues that our science advisors manufacture certainty for us in the face of the unknown. Through a series of cases reaching from the Delphic oracle to 17th-century London to Climategate, Walsh elucidates many of the problems with our current science-advising system. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Science -- Social aspects -- Forecasting.
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Science -- Social aspects -- Forecasting. |
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Science -- Social aspects. |
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Scientists -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Scientists -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Scientists. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Walsh, Lynda, 1971- Scientists as prophets. New York : Oxford University Press, [2013] 9780199857098 (DLC) 2012038843 (OCoLC)819531639 |
| ISBN |
9780199857104 (electronic book) |
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0199857105 (electronic book) |
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9780199857098 |
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0199857091 |
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9780199857111 |
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0199857113 |
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