Walsh, Lynda,  1971- <br/><br/>
Scientists as prophets  a rhetorical genealogy / 
Lynda Walsh. 
 - New York :  Oxford University Press,  (c)2013. 
 - 1 online resource (x, 264 pages) :  illustrations (some color). 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780199857104 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Science--Social aspects--Forecasting.<br/>Scientists--Moral and ethical aspects.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>Q175  / .S354 2013