Understanding Popular ScienceMcGraw-Hill Education (UK), 2006-06-01 - 183 psl. Understanding Popular Science provides a framework to help understand the development of popular science and current debates about it. In a lively and accessible style, Peter Broks shows how popular science has been invented, redefined and fought over. |
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Chapter 01 UNCERTAIN TIMES | |
Chapter 02 PROGRESS AND PROFESSIONALISM | |
Chapter 03 SCIENCE AND MODERNITY | |
Chapter 04 CONSUMING DOUBTS | |
Chapter 05 LITERACY AND LEGITIMATION | |
Chapter 06 GOING CRITICAL | |
Chapter 07 CONCEPTUAL SPACE | |
Glossary | |
Bibliography | |
Back cover | |
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