From Faust to Strangelove
Representations of the Scientist in Western Literature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4022129 |
|---|---|
| Authors | George Basalla, Roslynn D Haynes (0000-0002-6962-6349) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 623 |
| Publication date | 1996-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Technology and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0040-165X • E-ISSN: 1097-3729 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3107176 |
| OpenAlex | W1992728314 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 28 |
They were mad, of course. Or evil. Or godless, amoral, arrogant, impersonal, and inhuman. At best, they were well intentioned but blind to the dangers of forces they barely controlled. They were Faust and Frankenstein, Jekyll and Moreau, Caligari and Strangelove the scientists of film and fiction, cultural archetypes that reflected ancient fears of tampering with the unknown or unleashing the little-understood powers of nature. This book offers a detailed and comprehensive study of the image of the scientist in Western literature and film, from medieval images of alchemists to present-day depictions of cyberpunks and genetic engineers. Drawing on British, American, German, French, Russian and other examples, Haynes explores the persistent folklore of mad doctors of and its relation to popular fears of a depersonalized, male dominated, and socially irresponsible pursuit of knowledge for its own sake. She concludes that today's public response to science and scientists, much of it negative, is best understood by recognizing the importance of such cultural archetypes and their significance as myth
Art · FAUST · Literature · Science Education and Perceptions
Taking Stock of Engineering Epistemology
Frankenstein 2.0
Just for Fun
Scientific utopianism in Francis bacon and H.G. wells
Recirculating Memories of the Presidents as Benevolent Slaveholders on Presidential Slavery Tours
Attitudes Toward Embryo Research, Worldviews, and the Moral Status of the Embryo Frame
The New Men
Humphry Davy's Sexual Chemistry
A March to a Better World? Religiosity and the Existential Function of Belief in Social-Moral Progress
From Mad Scientist to Bad Scientist
Whatever happened to the ‘mad, bad’ scientist? Overturning the stereotype
Antirationalist critique or fifth column of scientism? Challenges from Doctor Who to the mad scientist trope
Of Power Maniacs and Unethical Geniuses
How to Teach Biology Using the Movie Science of Cloning People, Resurrecting the Dead, and Combining Flies and Humans
Complicating the sexualization thesis
Human Cloning in Film
The Gendered Culture of Scientific Competence
From Dr. Moreau to Dr. Mengele
Microscopic Doctors and Molecular Black Bags
The Biographies of J. Robert Oppenheimer
The many meanings of care in clinical research
Mad Scientists and Their Prey
The Atomic Hero
Scientisme. Sur rhistoire d'un concept difficile
Making Darwin
Why is Sharikov dead? The fate of “the Soviet Frankenstein” in Bulgakov’s A Dog’s Heart
In the Name of Science
Producing Absolute Truth
| Unique citing works | 28 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,04 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2019 (21) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |