The Authority of experts
Subtitle: studies in history and theory
By: edited by Thomas L. Haskell.
Contributors: Haskell, Thomas L., 1939-
Series: Interdisciplinary studies in history
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Professions.; Authority.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Thomas L. Haskell; title: Are professions necessary? / Eliot Freidson; title: The production of expertise and the constitution of expert power / Magali Sarfatti Larson; title: The erosion of public culture / Thomas Bender; title: The social foundations of professional credibility / Peter Dobkin Hall; title: Inquiry and uplift / David A. Hollinger; title: American social science and the idea of progress / Dorothy Ross; title: Professionalism versus capitalism / Thomas L. Haskell; title: Expertise, justification, and the psychology of inductive reasoning / Stephen P. Stich and Richard E. Nisbett; title: Law as literature / Sanford Levinson.