The application of rhetorical and narrative approaches to science have been used to analyze the discourse of popular culture and how it relates to complex social phenomena such as the proliferation of pseudoscience or antipsychiatry. The rhet-oric of science studies how scientists—as part of a discursive community—frame and communicate their knowledge; what they argue about and how; how sci-entists present their findings; and what genres, formats, and media they use to communicate those findings. Despite the growing body of scholarship on the rhetoric of science, there is a need for further development of rhetoric as a frame-work for the public understanding of science, specifically given the increasingly mediatized public debate in an expert-dominated society. A rhetorical approach to scientific discourse studies how particular framings of scientific findings and developments influence the socio-ethical debate, how this relates to science pol-icy, and how an awareness of the rhetorical dimensions of science is important for scientific as well as nonscientific audiences and what the educational dimensions are of such a rhetorical and narrative awareness.In part 1, this volume brings together new work on the public understand-ing of science from the perspective of literature, narratology, cultural studies, anthropology, and rhetoric.