Screams of reason
mad science and modern culture
1st ed.
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Word Count
92,000 words, Guess
Page Count
368 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL703400M
- ISBN-10039304582X
- OCLC Control Number38132723
- OCLC Control Numberscreamsofreasonm0000skal
- Library of Congress Control Number97052594
and 2 more
- Goodreads584051
- LibraryThing553994
Classifications
- DDC791.43/6164
- LCCPN1995.9.H6 S58 1998
Description
In Screams of Reason, David J. Skal explores our perennial fascination with demented doctors, crazed clinicians, and technology-obsessed fiends. From nineteenth-century Romantic literature to Dr. Strangelove and Hannibal Lecter, the mad scientist proves himself to be a figure of myriad masks and guises - a far more interesting archetype than the nerd-run-amok of B-movies would indicate. Screams of Reason is an exploration of the prop-laden laboratories of 1930s Hollywood, the mad-science mystique that colors the cult of the computer, the pseudo-science folklore of UFO abductions, and the demonization of doctors and medicine in the brave new world of HMOs and managed care.
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