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An edition of Screams of reason (1998)

Screams of reason

mad science and modern culture

1st ed.

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  • 2 Want to read

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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W.W. Norton
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English
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368

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History and criticism, Horror films, Horror films, history and criticism, New York Times reviewed, Horror films--history and criticism, Pn1995.9.h6 s58 1998, 791.43/6164

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Aug 01, 1998, W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
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Screams of reason: mad science and modern culture
1998, W.W. Norton
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-358) and index.

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791.43/6164
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PN1995.9.H6 S58 1998, PN1995.9.H6S58 1998

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368 p. :
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38132723
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553994
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