Using and Abusing Science: Science and Political Discourse from Burke's "French Revolution" to Obama's Science Fair
Coordonné par Véronique Molinari & Cyril Besson (Université Grenoble-Alpes)
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2016)
http://www.cambridgescholars.com/using-and-abusing-science
Table of contents
Introduction - Cyril Besson and Véronique Molinari
Part I: The imagery of Science
- Scientific Imagery in Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), Sarah Peyroux-Roblin
- Doctor Jekyll and Citizen Stevenson: Figures of Science as Forms of Political Discourse in the Work of Robert Louis Stevenson, Cyril Besson
Part II: The Migration of scientific concepts
- Andrew Carnegie and Managerial Darwinism: from Scientific Discourse to Management Concepts at the Turn of the Twentieth Century;Christian Leblond
- Equivocating upon Law and Science: Science, Politics, and the Migration of Humanitarianism in Nineteenth-Century America, Jeffrey Mullins
- 'Who Is To Decide Who the Medical Charlatans Are?': Benjamin O. Flower, 'Medical Freedom' And Scientific Expertise In The USA In The 1910s, Jean-Louis Marin-Lamellet
- Science and Animal Ethics: Peter Singer’s Utilitarian Approach, Emilie Dardenne
Part III: The Rhetorical Power of Science
- Constructing Weakness: Scientific Rhetoric and Victorian Sensibilities, Julie Homchick
- The Eugenic Vote: Eugenics and Suffrage Rhetoric in the Edwardian period, Véronique Molinari
- Barack Obama's Popularization of Science: a Political Strategy?, Grégory Benedetti
- Was there an Alternative? Economic Science, Political Discourse and the Neoliberal Revolution, Paul Auerbach, Gilles Christoph & Marc Lenormand