THE PUBLIC IMAGE OF CHEMISTRY

THE PUBLIC IMAGE OF CHEMISTRY

CONTENTS


FRONT MATTER	i
INTRODUCTION	1
Part 1: Popular Images in Fiction and Movies
THE ALCHEMIST IN FICTION: THE MASTER NARRATIVE Roslynn Haynes	7
HISTORICAL ROOTS OF THE ‘MAD SCIENTIST’: CHEMISTS IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE Joachim Schummer	37
CHEMISTS AND THEIR CRAFT IN FICTION FILM Peter Weingart	81
CHEMISTRY AND POWER IN RECENT AMERICAN FICTION Philip Ball	97
Part 2: Self-Images in Chemistry Popularizations
POPULARIZING CHEMISTRY: HANDS-ON AND HANDS-OFF David Knight	123
LIEBIG OR HOW TO POPULARIZE CHEMISTRY Marika Blondel-Mégrelis	137
FROM CHEMISTRY FOR THE PEOPLE TO THE WONDERS OF TECHNOLOGY: THE POPULARIZATION OF CHEMISTRY IN THE NETHERLANDS DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY Ernst Homburg	151
ABRAHAM CRESSY MORRISON IN THE AGORA: BRINGING CHEMISTRY TO THE PUBLIC Andrew Ede	187
THE VISUAL IMAGE OF CHEMISTRY: PERSPECTIVES FROM THE HISTORY OF ART AND SCIENCE Joachim Schummer and Tami I. Spector	213
Part 3: Mediated Images
TAKING SCIENCE TO THE MARKETPLACE: EXAMPLES OF SCIENCE SERVICE'S PRESENTATION OF CHEMISTRY DURING THE 1930s Marcel C. LaFollette	259
THE IMAGE OF CHEMISTRY PRESENTED BY THE SCIENCE MUSEUM, LONDON IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE Peter J. T. Morris	297
ON THE SELF-IMAGE OF CHEMISTS, 1950–2000 Pierre Laszlo	329
BACK MATTER	369
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