The Literature of science : perspectives on popular scientific writing / edited by Murdo William McRae.

Athens : University of Georgia Press, [1993], ©1993.

ix, 321 pages ; 24 cm

Introduction : Science in culture / Murdo William McRae -- Accommodating science : the rhetorical life of scientific facts / Jeanne Fahnestock -- Popularization and the challenge to science-centrism in the 1930s / Doug Russell -- Loren Eiseley's Immense journey : the making of a literary naturalist / Andrew J. Angyal -- In search of the exact location of the soul : Richard Selzer and the rhetoric of surgery / Charles M. Anderson -- Oliver Sacks's neurology of identity / Murdo William McRae -- Stephen Jay Gould's vision of history / Louis P. Masur -- Chaos out of order : the writerly discourse of semipopular scientific texts / Robert T. Kelley -- Making chaos : two views of a new science / David S. Porush -- Aspects of the daemonic in Primo Levi's Periodic table / Bruce Clarke -- Hermeneutics and the new epic of science / Martin Eger -- Nature and nation in popular scientific narratives of polar exploration / Barry Pegg

Aggression and power : the R-complex and nuclear blackmail / Alan G. Wasserstein -- Reflective scientists and the critique of mechanistic metaphor / Mary Ellen Pitts -- Contemporary ecophilosophy in David Quammen's popular natural histories / Allison Bulsterbaum Wallace -- Omni meets Feynman : the interaction between popular and scientific cultures / David A. Stone.

Includes bibliographical references and index