The Politics of Distinction: Whitman and the Discourses of Nineteenth-Century America

by Christopher Beach

What is it like to be a scientist at the end of the twentieth century? How have shifts in power and in assumptions about knowledge affected scientific practice? Who are the people behind the new technologies, and how do they address the difficult moral and professional issues during a time of global change? Techno-Scientific Imaginaries explores these and other important questions at the approach of the new millennium. In these penetrating essays,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820318345
• ISBN13: 9780820318349
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 217 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.