01441nam a2200205Ia 4500 TDMU_35880 210410s9999 xx 000 0 und d 333.76 Walsh, Lynda Scientists as prophets a rhetorical genealogy Lynda Walsh New York, NY Oxford University Press [2013] x, 264 pages, 1 unnumbered color page of plates Ebook from Oxford Scholarship Online; Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-259) and index; 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 Science Social aspects Forecasting; Scientists Moral and ethical aspects; Nhà khoa học Khía cạnh xã hội Dự báo; Nhà khoa học Khía cạnh đạo đức và đạo đức http://lrc.tdmu.edu.vn/opac/search/detail.asp?aID=2&ID=35880 Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Thủ Dầu Một