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Groovy science : knowledge, innovation, and American counterculture /

In his 1969 book The Making of a Counterculture, Theodore Roszak described the youth of the late 1960s as fleeing science "as if from a place inhabited by plague," and even seeking "subversion of the scientific worldview" itself. Roszak's view has come to be our own: when we...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kaiser, David (Editor ), McCray, Patrick (W. Patrick) (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Conversion
  • Adult swim: how John C. Lilly got groovy (and took the dolphin with him), 1958-1968 / Graham Burnett
  • Blowing foam and blowing minds: better surfing through chemistry / Peter Neushul and Peter Westwick
  • Santa Barbara physicists in the Vietnam era / Cyrus C.M. Mody
  • Seeking
  • Between the counterculture and the corporation: Abraham Maslow and humanistic psychology in the 1960s / Nadine Weidman
  • A quest for permanence: the ecological visioneering of John Todd and the new Alchemy Institute / Henry Trim
  • The little manual that started a revolution: how hippie midwifery became mainstream / Wendy Kline
  • Personae
  • The unseasonable grooviness of Immanuel Velikovsky / Michael D. Gordin
  • Timothy Leary's transhumanist smile / W. Patrick McCray
  • Science of the sexy beast: biological masculinities and the Playboy lifestyle / Erika Lorraine Milam
  • Legacies
  • Alloyed: countercultural bricoleurs and the design science revival / Andrew Kirk
  • How the industrial scientist got his groove: entrepreneurial journalism and the fashioning of technoscientific innovators / Matthew Wisnioski
  • When chèvre was weird: hippie taste, technoscience, and the revival of American artisanal food making / Heather Paxson
  • Afterword: the counterculture's looking glass / David Farber and Beth Bailey.