Science under Fire : : Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America /

Science under Fire : : Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America / / Andrew Jewett.

Conservative skepticism of scientific authority—contesting evolution and the climate change consensus—is constantly in the news. But liberal humanists also have their doubts, targeting “scientistic” overreach. Andrew Jewett provides the first history of Americans’ diverse and longstanding criticisms...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Jewett, Andrew,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • INTRODUCTION: Science as a Cultural Threat
  • 1. MENTAL MODERNIZATION
  • 2. RESISTING THE MODERN
  • 3. SCIENCE AND THE STATE
  • 4. SOCIAL ENGINEERING
  • 5. MODERNITY AND SCIENTISM
  • 6. THE HUMANISTIC OPPOSITION
  • 7. A NEW RIGHT
  • 8. CROSS-FERTILIZATION
  • 9. A NEW LEFT
  • 10. SKEPTICISM INSTANTIATED
  • 11. SCIENCE AS CULTURE
  • CONCLUSION: Humanizing Science
  • NOTES
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INDEX

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