This book examines how visual media influences public perceptions of science and scientific research in the current context of growing public anxiety about the social impact of that research.

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

Bernd Huppauf is a Professor at New York University

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