Science Talk : : Changing Notions of Science in American Culture / / Daniel Patrick Thurs.
Science news is met by the public with a mixture of fascination and disengagement. On the one hand, Americans are inflamed by topics ranging from the question of whether or not Pluto is a planet to the ethics of stem-cell research. But the complexity of scientific research can also be confusing and...
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Thurs, Daniel Patrick, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Science Talk : Changing Notions of Science in American Culture / Daniel Patrick Thurs. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2007] ©2007 1 online resource (252 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Talking about Science -- Chapter 1. Phrenology: A Science for Everyone -- Chapter 2. Evolution: Struggling over Science -- Chapter 3. Relativity: A Science Set Apart -- Chapter 4. UFOs: In the Shadow of Science -- Chapter 5. Intelligent Design: The Evolution of Science Talk -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Science news is met by the public with a mixture of fascination and disengagement. On the one hand, Americans are inflamed by topics ranging from the question of whether or not Pluto is a planet to the ethics of stem-cell research. But the complexity of scientific research can also be confusing and overwhelming, causing many to divert their attentions elsewhere and leave science to the "experts." Whether they follow science news closely or not, Americans take for granted that discoveries in the sciences are occurring constantly. Few, however, stop to consider how these advances-and the debates they sometimes lead to-contribute to the changing definition of the term "science" itself. Going beyond the issue-centered debates, Daniel Patrick Thurs examines what these controversies say about how we understand science now and in the future. Drawing on his analysis of magazines, newspapers, journals and other forms of public discourse, Thurs describes how science-originally used as a synonym for general knowledge-became a term to distinguish particular subjects as elite forms of study accessible only to the highly educated. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Science History. Science United States. SCIENCE / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110688610 print 9780813540733 https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813541525 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813541525 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780813541525.jpg |
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