HOT OFF THE PRESS!
1 Sep 2017
Just released from John Hopkins University Press, FMS researcher Roslynn Haynes's
updated study of scientist characters throughout the history of Western culture
In From
Madman to Crime Fighter, Roslynn D. Haynes analyzes
stereotypical characters—including the mad scientist, the cold-blooded
pursuer of knowledge, the intrepid pathbreaker, and the bumbling
fool—that, from medieval times to the present day, have been used to
depict the scientist in Western literature and film. She also describes
more realistically drawn scientists, characters who are conscious of
their public responsibility to expose dangers from pollution and climate
change yet fearful of being accused of lacking evidence.
