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From madman to crime fighter : the scientist in western culture / Roslynn D. Haynes (University of New South Wales)

By: Resource type: Ressourcentyp: BuchBookLanguage: English Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017Description: xi, 407 Seiten : IllustrationenISBN:
  • 1421423049
  • 9781421423043
Uniform titles:
  • From Faust to Strangelove: Representations of the Scientist in Western Literature
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 1421423057. | 9781421423050. DDC classification:
  • 809/.9336 23
  • 809.9336
RVK: RVK: EC 5410 | HG 434LOC classification:
  • PN56.5.S35
Summary: Introduction -- 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 -- Watershed: the new scientistsCall number: Grundsignatur: 2019 A 1781PPN: PPN: 882641026
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Status Barcode
Freihandbestand ausleihbar Bibliothek Campus Süd lit 1.32 Lesesaal Geisteswissenschaften (LSG) 2019 A 1781 Available 53377529090
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