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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Scientists as prophets
    sub title: a rhetorical genealogy
  name:
    name part: Olman, Lynda C. (Lynda Christine)
    name part: 1971-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2013
    copyright date: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 264 pages,1 page of color plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  table of 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.
  note: Lynda Walsh.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Social aspects
    topic: Forecasting
  subject:
    topic: Scientists
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
  classification: Q175.5 .W35 2013
  classification: 303.48/3
  identifier: 9780199857098 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  identifier: 0199857091 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  identifier: 9780199857111 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  identifier: 0199857113 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  identifier: 2012038843
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 121119
    record change date: 20210918063200.0
    record identifier: in00003391808