In this Book
- Science Talk: Changing Notions of Science in American Culture
- Book
- 2007
- Published by: Rutgers University Press
summary
Discoveries in the sciences are occurring constantly contributing to the changing defeition of the term "science" itself. 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.
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Additional Information
ISBN
9780813541525
Related ISBN(s)
9780813540733
MARC Record
OCLC
190791462
Pages
252
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No