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Author Locke, Simon.

Title Re-crafting rationalization : enchanted science and mundane mysteries / Simon Locke
Published Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2010]
©2010
©2010

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 MELB  306.45 Loc/Rcr  AVAILABLE
Description vi, 224 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Machine generated contents note: pt. I Re-Crafting Rationalization -- 1.From PUS to PMS: Adventures of an Unhappy Acronym -- 2.Intellectualist Rationalization, or What Does it Mean to Live in a Scientific Society? -- 3.Re-crafting Rationalization: Why Science Does Not Mean Disenchantment -- pt. II Enchanted Science -- 4.̀Fearfully and Wonderfully Made' -- Designing an Enchanted Self -- 5.Soulful Science -- Scientology -- 6.To Be Continued: The Magical Power of Super Science -- pt. III Mundane Mysteries -- 7.Paradoxes of Definitiveness: Mundane Mysteries and Fortean Strangeness -- 8.Rationalized Blaming: Conspiracy Discourse -- 9.Categorizing Jack -- the ̀Mad Doctor'
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-218) and index
Subject Communication in science.
Science -- Public opinion.
Science -- Social aspects.
LC no. 2010035186
ISBN 9780754678304 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780754696391 (ebook)