دورية أكاديمية
Constructing a scientist: expert authority and public images of Rachel Carson.
| العنوان: | Constructing a scientist: expert authority and public images of Rachel Carson. |
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| المؤلفون: | Hecht DK; Bowdoin College, ME. |
| المصدر: | Historical studies in the natural sciences [Hist Stud Nat Sci] 2011; Vol. 41 (3), pp. 277-302. |
| نوع المنشور: | Historical Article; Journal Article |
| اللغة: | English |
| بيانات الدورية: | Publisher: University of California Press Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 101320234 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Print ISSN: 1939-1811 (Print) NLM ISO Abbreviation: Hist Stud Nat Sci |
| أسماء مطبوعة: | Original Publication: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press |
| مواضيع طبية MeSH: | Pesticides*/economics , Pesticides*/history , Public Health*/education , Public Health*/history , Publications*/history , Research Personnel*/education , Research Personnel*/history , Science*/education , Science*/history, Environment ; Expert Testimony ; History, 20th Century ; Pesticide Residues/economics ; Pesticide Residues/history ; Public Opinion/history |
| مستخلص: | This article uses the voluminous public discourse around Rachel Carson and her controversial bestseller "Silent Spring" to explore Americans' views on science and scientists. Carson provides a particularly interesting case study because of intense and public debates over whether she was a scientist at all, and therefore whether her book should be granted legitimacy as science. Her career defied easy classification, as she acted variously as writer, activist, and environmentalist in addition to scientist. Defending her work as legitimate science, which many though not all commentators did, therefore became an act of defining what both science and scientists could and should be. This article traces the variety of nonscientific images and narratives readers and writers assigned to Carson, such as 'reluctant crusader' and 'scientist-poet'. It argues that nonscientific attributes were central to legitimating her as both admirable person and admirable scientist. It explores how debates over "Silent Spring" can be usefully read as debates over the desirability of putatively nonscientific attributes in the professional work of a scientist. And it examines the nature of Carson's very democratized image for changing notions of science and scientists in 1960s United States politics and culture. |
| المشرفين على المادة: | 0 (Pesticide Residues) 0 (Pesticides) |
| تواريخ الأحداث: | Date Created: 20111007 Date Completed: 20121002 Latest Revision: 20191112 |
| رمز التحديث: | 20221213 |
| DOI: | 10.1525/hsns.2011.41.3.277 |
| PMID: | 21972474 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | MEDLINE |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 1939-1811 |
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| DOI: | 10.1525/hsns.2011.41.3.277 |