Table of Contents

1. Images in and of Science 2. Science Images between Scientific Fields and the Public Sphere: A Historiographical Survey 3. Image Science 4. Popular Images versus Self-Images of Science: Visual Representations of Science in Clipart Cartoons and Internet Photographs 5. The Frog’s Two Bodies: The Frog in Science Images 6. Science from Hell: Jack the Ripper and Victorian Vivisection 7. The Scientist as Personality: Elaborating a Science of Intimacy in the Nadar/Chevreul Interview (1886) 8. Visual Arguments: The Role of Images in Sciences and Mathematics 9. Imagination, Multimodality and Embodied Interaction: A Discussion of Sound and Movement in Two Cases of Laboratory and Clinical Magnetic Resonance Imaging 10. Neuroscience and Contemporary Art: An Interview 11. Women Scientists in Mainstream Film: Social Role Models - A Contribution to the Public Understanding of Science from the
Perspective of Film Sociology 12. Stereotypes and Images of Scientists in Fiction Films 13. The Ambivalence Towards New Knowledge: Science in Fiction Film 14. Unforgettable?: Science, Prosthetic Memory, Film 15. The Self-Referential Scientist: Narrative, Media, and Metamorphosis in Cronenberg’s The Fly

About the Author

Peter Weingart is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bielefeld, Germany.

Bernd Huppauf is a Professor at New York University