Screams of Reason
Mad Science and Modern Culture
Edición de la obra Screams of reason
| Autor | David J. Skal |
|---|---|
| Editorial | W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated |
| Fecha de publicación | Aug 01, 1998 |
| Formato | paperback |
| ISBN-13 | 9780393317862 |
| ISBN-10 | 0393317862 |
| Número de Cutter | S626s |
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.