How Superstition Won and Science Lost: Popularization of Science and Health in the United States by John C. Burnham

How Superstition Won and Science Lost: Popularization of Science and Health in the United States

John C. Burnham

369 pages first pub 1987 (editions)

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John Burnham studies the history of changing patterns in the dissemination, or "popularization," of scientific findings to the general public since 1830. Focusing on three different areas of science -- health, psychology, and the natural sciences ...

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