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Genre/Form: | Kongress Congresses |
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Material Type: | Conference publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert Proctor; Londa L Schiebinger |
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"--Page vii. |
Description: | viii, 298 pages : illustrations ; 23 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 nobodys 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 product of human choice and ingenuity as what we choose to know. Agnotology rescues ignorance from the no-mans-land of unexamined social phenomena. It makes us ask what is at stake when we dont know things that are plainly before our eyes. This is a book for every thinking citizen."-Sheila Jasanoff, Harvard University "In the past years there have been few new fields of research as timely as agnotology. Many a time one is puzzled by the widespread ignorance of some of the greatest challenges mankind faces today, be it global warming, the way to the Iraq war, or the global tobacco epidemic. Agnotology might very well be the tool to delve into the great black holes of modern knowledge and also find a way out." -- Andrian Kreye Read more...


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- Ignorance (Theory of knowledge) -- Social aspects -- Congresses.
- Secrecy -- Congresses.
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- Philosophie
- Unwissenheit
- University Park <Pa., 2003>
- Kunskapsteori.
- Kunskapssociologi.
- Gesellschaft.
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