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From madman to crime fighter : the scientist in western culture /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Haynes, Roslynn D. (Roslynn Doris), 1940- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Scientists in literature.
Literature and science.
Scientists in motion pictures.
Science in motion pictures.
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.