{"product_id":"from-madman-to-crime-fighter-9781421423043","title":"From Madman to Crime Fighter","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Madman to Crime Fighter is the most comprehensive study of the image of the scientist in Western literature and film.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHer approach is to correlate developments in science and technology over the following seven centuries with descriptions of how scientists have been portrayed in contemporaneous literature, and more recently in fascinating read.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a wonderful book, both in the sense of being a pleasure to read and being full of wonders.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eSAGE Blog\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this update, Haynes has extended her purview to accommodate the growth in scholarship on science and popular culture, especially in the area of film, which has occurred in the twenty years since the publication of the first edition... Anyone wishing to design a course on science or the scientist (however he or she may define these terms) in literature, cinema or popular culture, set either in a single era or over a span of time, could easily get away with using this new volume as a one-stop shopping catalogue for primary sources.\u003cbr\u003e—Neeraja Sankaran, Independent Scholar, \u003ci\u003eBritish Society for Literature and Science\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. Evil Alchemists and Doctor Faustus\u003cbr\u003e2. Bacon’s New Scientists\u003cbr\u003e3. Foolish Virtuosi\u003cbr\u003e4. Newton\u003cbr\u003e5. Arrogant and Godless\u003cbr\u003e6. Inhuman Scientists\u003cbr\u003e7. Frankenstein and the Creature\u003cbr\u003e8. Victorian Scientists\u003cbr\u003e9. The Scientist as Adventurer\u003cbr\u003e10. Efficiency and Power\u003cbr\u003e11. The Scientist as Hero\u003cbr\u003e12. Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know\u003cbr\u003e13. The Impersonal Scientist\u003cbr\u003e14. \u003ci\u003eScientia Gratia Scientiae\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e15. Robots, Androids, Cyborgs, and Clones\u003cbr\u003e16. Pandora’s Box\u003cbr\u003e17. The Scientist as Woman\u003cbr\u003e18. Idealism and Conscience\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003eAppendix\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408122650967,"sku":"9781421423043","price":36.27,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421423043.jpg?v=1730501667","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/from-madman-to-crime-fighter-9781421423043","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}