Rhetoric of science

Jones, William Powell. The rhetoric of science a study of scientific ideas and imagery in eighteenth-century English poetry. Berkeley (CA) London University of California P. Routledge Kegan Paul, 1966. xi, 243 p. 

Kirk, A., Kutchins, H. (1992). The selling ofDSM The rhetoric of science in psychiatry. New York Aldine De Gruyter. 

Kirk, S. A., and Kutchins, H. The Selling ofDSM The Rhetoric of Science in Psychiatry. New York Aldine de Gruyter, 1992. 

Prelli, L. J. A Rhetoric of Science Inventing Scientific Discourse University of South Carolina Press Columbia, SC, 1989. 

I erelman and Olbrcchts-Tyteca (1969) reenergized the study of Aristotelian rhetoric and argumentation with their New Rhetoric, but their work does not invent a new rhetoric. Much of the rhetoric of. science has borrowed trt>tn Aristotelian frameworks in order to demonstrate the presence of rhetoric in scientific texts and activities. 

Gross, A. (1990). Rhetoric of science. Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press. 

Prelli, L. J. (1989). A rhetoric of science Inventing scientific discourse. Columbia, SC South Carolina University Press. 

Some days, if his tutor was absent on Council business, I would enter his chambers unannounced rather than send for him, the better to know how well he studied, and whether his lessons were suited to his tastes as well as to the needs of the kingdom. He and the chaplain and the two boys that studied with him would scramble to their feet and bow, and I would take up the slates and read what they had written. Neds Latin verses were the best, and his understanding of science, his rhetoric, too it was not my love that made them seem so, but his desert. He has all Edward s cleverness, and Elysabeth s, but willingly directs his mind to philosophy and reason, while his faith is true and strong. Sometimes I watched him kneeling before the Host at Mass and my heart sang to see my boy lost so well in the love of God. 

See Gieryn 1983, 784. Gieryn, a sociologist of science, has called such rhetorical efforts to solidify a superior intellectual position for science by demarcating it from the non or pseudoscientific boundary-work. ... 

David Spurr, The Rhetoric of Empire Colonial Discourse in Journalism, Travel Writing, and Imperial Administration (Durham Duke University Press, 1993), p. 112 Robyn Wiegman, American Anatomies Theorizing Race and Gender (Durham Duke University Press, 1995), pp. 21-42 Michel Foucault, The Order of Things An Archaeology of Human Sciences (London Tavistock, 1970) Smedley, Race in North America, p. 171. 

The reader is reminded that at the Lyc Corneille in Rouen from 1897 to 1907, Duchamp was exposed to a rigorous classical curriculum, consisting of, besides the major works of French literature, a heavy academic menu philosophy, history, rhetoric, math, science, English, German, Latin, and Greek Goldfarb Marquis, 32. 

How are we to sort through all the rhetoric that surrounds questions of science and health ... 

Christie, J. R. R. Narrative and Rhetoric in Helene Metzger s Historiography of Eighteenth Century Chemistry. History of Science 25,1987, 99-109. 

Ibid., 14. See also Shapin, S. (1994). Social History of Truth Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England. Chicago Cantor, G. (1989). The Rhetoric of Experiment. In D. Gooding, T. Pinch, S. Schaffer (Eds.), The Uses of Experiment. Studies of experimentation in the natural sciences (pp. 159-180). Cambridge. 

The point that I am making would hardly need emphasis or elaborate illustration except for the fact that a certain understanding of science, modernity, and development has so successfully structured the dominant discourse that all other kinds of knowledge are regarded as backward, static traditions, as old wives tales and superstitions. High modernism has needed this other, this dark twin, in order to rhetorically present itself as the antidote to backwardness. The binary oppo-... 

Larry Stewart, The Rise of Public Science Rhetoric, Technology, and Natural Philosophy in Newtonian Britain, 1660-1750 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992) Simon Schaffer, Natural philosophy and public spectacle in the eighteenth century, History of Science 21, 1983, 1-43. 

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