TY  - BOOK
AU  - Walsh,Lynda
TI  - Scientists as prophets: a rhetorical genealogy 
SN  - 9780199857098 (hbk.)
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Science
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Forecasting
KW  - Scientists
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
N1  - Includes index; Includes bibliographical references; 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
ER  -