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From Madman to Crime Fighter : The Scientist in Western Culture /
They were mad, of course. Or evil. Or godless, amoral, arrogant, impersonal, and inhuman. At best, they were well intentioned but blind to the dangers of forces they barely controlled. They were Faust and Frankenstein, Jekyll and Moreau, Caligari and Strangelove-the scientists of film and fiction, c...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2017.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Myths of science
- Evil alchemists and Doctor Faustus
- Bacon's new scientists
- Foolish virtuosi
- Newton: a scientist for God
- Arrogant and godless: scientists in eighteenth-century satire
- Inhuman scientists: the romantic perception
- Frankenstein and the creature
- Victorian scientists: doubt and struggle
- The scientist as adventurer
- Efficiency and power: the scientist under scrutiny
- The scientist as hero
- Mad, bad, and dangerous to know: reality overtakes fiction
- The impersonal scientist
- Scientia gratia scientiae: the amoral scientist
- Pandora's box
- Robots, cyborgs, androids and clones: who is in control?
- The scientist as woman
- Idealism and conscience
- Conclusion: New images of scientists.