Walsh, Lynda. <br/><br/>
Scientists as prophets :  a rhetorical genealogy / 
Lynda Walsh. 
 - New York :  Oxford University Press,  2013. 
 - x, 264 p. :  ill. (some col.) ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes index. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780199857098 (hbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Science--Social aspects--Forecasting.<br/>Scientists--Moral and ethical aspects.