Science under Fire : : Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America / / Andrew Jewett.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Jewett, Andrew,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; INTRODUCTION: Science as a Cultural Threat --; 1. MENTAL MODERNIZATION --; 2. RESISTING THE MODERN --; 3. SCIENCE AND THE STATE --; 4. SOCIAL ENGINEERING --; 5. MODERNITY AND SCIENTISM --; 6. THE HUMANISTIC OPPOSITION --; 7. A NEW RIGHT --; 8. CROSS-FERTILIZATION --; 9. A NEW LEFT --; 10. SKEPTICISM INSTANTIATED --; 11. SCIENCE AS CULTURE --; CONCLUSION: Humanizing Science --; NOTES --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674247109; 9783110690057
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674247109?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Andrew Jewett.

Conservative skepticism of scientific authority—contesting evolution and the climate change consensus—is constantly in the news. But liberal humanists also have their doubts, targeting “scientistic” overreach. Andrew Jewett provides the first history of Americans’ diverse and longstanding criticisms of science as a source of corrupt social values.