The Authority of experts : studies in history and theory / edited by Thomas L. Haskell. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1984. - Interdisciplinary studies in history .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction / Thomas L. Haskell -- Are professions necessary? / Eliot Freidson -- The production of expertise and the constitution of expert power / Magali Sarfatti Larson -- The erosion of public culture / Thomas Bender -- The social foundations of professional credibility / Peter Dobkin Hall -- Inquiry and uplift / David A. Hollinger -- American social science and the idea of progress / Dorothy Ross -- Professionalism versus capitalism / Thomas L. Haskell -- Expertise, justification, and the psychology of inductive reasoning / Stephen P. Stich and Richard E. Nisbett -- Law as literature / Sanford Levinson.

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Professions.
Authority.

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