How Superstition Won & Science Lost: Popularizing Science and Health in the United States

by John C. Burnham

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John Burnham studies the history of changing patterns in the dissemination, or "popularization," of scientific findings to the general public since 1830. Focusing on three different areas of science -- health, psychology, and the natural sciences -- Burnham explores the ways in which this process of popularization has deteriorated. He draws on evidence ranging from early lyceum lecturers to the new math and argues that today popular science is the...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0813512654

ISBN13:9780813512655

Release Date:November 1987

Publisher:Rutgers University Press

Length:369 Pages

Weight:1.36 lbs.

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