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Science under fire : challenges to scientific authority in modern America / Andrew Jewett.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jewett, Andrew, 1970- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Science.
- Science--Social aspects--United States--History--21st century.
- Science--Political aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Science--Political aspects--United States--History--21st century.
- Science--Moral and ethical aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Science--Moral and ethical aspects--United States--History--21st century.
- Political culture--United States.
- Political culture.
- Truthfulness and falsehood--Political aspects.
- Truthfulness and falsehood.
- Science--Moral and ethical aspects.
- History.
- Science--Political aspects.
- Science--Social aspects.
- United States.
- Truthfulness and falsehood--Political aspects--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (356 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2020.
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2020]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Introduction: Science by association
- Making modern minds
- Resisting the modern
- A scientific state
- Science and human behavior
- Facts and values
- Two cultures
- A new right
- Cross-fertilization
- A new left
- Skepticism instantiated
- Beyond universalism
- Conclusion: Scientific authority in pieces?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780674247109
- 0674247108
- Publisher Number:
- 99985881772
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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