How Science Lost to Superstition (Popular Science and Health in the United States) (Open Humanities)

Author: (American) Bernam, translated by Niu Weixing
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Publish Date: 2006-07-01
Features: This book studies the history of science popularization in the United States since 1830, revealing a puzzling phenomenon: science, once a positive and progressive cultural force, gradually yields ground to the revival of superstition and mysticism in American consumer culture, ultimately leading to the defeat of science by superstition at the mass level. The author weaves together the history of science popularization in 19th and 20th-century America (the "longitude") with the popularization activities in three fields—public health, psychology, and natural sciences (the "latitude")—to present readers with a "battle history" of American science and superstition.