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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/183609349 Title: Agnotology : the making and unmaking of ignorance Author: Robert Proctor; Londa L Schiebinger Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2008. ISBN/ISSN: 9780804756525 080475652X 9780804759014 0804759014 OCLC:183609349

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Agnotology : the making and unmaking of ignorance

Author:	Robert Proctor; Londa L Schiebinger
Publisher:	Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2008.
Edition/Format:	Book : Conference publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Summary:	What don't we know, and why don't we know it? What keeps ignorance alive, or allows it to be used as a political instrument? This book provides a theoretical perspective to broaden traditional Read more...
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Subjects	Ignorance (Theory of knowledge) -- Social aspects -- Congresses. Secrecy -- Congresses. Philosophie. View all subjects
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Genre/Form:	Congresses
Material Type:	Conference publication, Internet resource
Document Type:	Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors:	Robert Proctor; Londa L Schiebinger Find more information about:
ISBN:	9780804756525 080475652X 9780804759014 0804759014
OCLC Number:	183609349
Notes:	"This volume emerged from workshops held at Pennsylvania State University in 2003 and Stanford University in 2005"--P. vii.
Description:	viii, 298 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents:	Agnotology : a missing term to describe the cultural production of ignorance (and its study) / Robert N. Proctor -- Removing knowledge : the logic of modern censorship / Peter Galison -- Challenging knowledge : how climate science became a victim of the cold war / Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway -- Manufactured uncertainty : contested science and the protection of the public's health and environment / David Michaels -- Coming to understand : orgasm and the epistemology of ignorance / Nancy Tuana -- West Indian abortifacients and the making of ignorance / Londa Schiebinger -- Suppression of indigenous fossil knowledge : from Claverack, New York, 1705 to Agate Springs, Nebraska, 2005 / Adrienne Mayor -- Mapping ignorance in archaeology : the advantages of historical hindsight / Alison Wylie -- Social theories of ignorance / Michael J. Smithson -- White ignorance / Charles W. Mills -- Risk management versus the precautionary principle : agnotology as a strategy in the debate over genetically engineered organisms / David Magnus -- Smoking out objectivity : journalistic gears in the agnotology machine / Jon Christensen.
Responsibility:	edited by Robert N. Proctor and Londa Schiebinger.
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"Anyone who thinks ignorance is nobody's business has a lot to learn from these provocative essays. The distinguished authors offer compelling evidence that what we do not know is every bit as much a Read more...

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