The cultural authority of science is the authority that is granted to science in any particular context. This authority is as much a matter of image and perceiv

This text argues that an explanation for the cultural authority of science lies where scientific claims leave laboratories and enter boardrooms and living rooms

Toumey focuses on the ways in which the symbols of science are employed to signify scientific authority in a variety of cases, from the selling of medical produ

Americans have long been suspicious of experts and elites. This new history explains why so many have believed that science has the power to corrupt American cu

Every arena of science has its own flash-point issues—chemistry and poison gas, physics and the atom bomb—and genetics has had a troubled history with race.